On Feb 19, 10:28*am, "
wrote:
On Feb 18, 6:06*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:

I have a slow close toilet seat, wood with chrome hinges. When I first
installed it a couple of years ago, a gentle push started both the seat and
lid closing with the seat closing in about 7 seconds and the lid in about
10.

Now, that same push gets the seat closing as usual, but the lid stops. I
have to manually close the lid to about 45* before it will move on it's
own. Once it starts it takes over 3 minutes to close.

This is not a big deal now but it might be if the seat begins to exhibit
the same problem.

How do these slow closing hinges work and what would make just the lid part
slow down?

Is it temperature sensitive???

It does not seem to be. If it were I would expect that both the seat
and lid would close at the same rate. However, it is only the lid that
has slowed down to a point that we don't even close it any more.

It's not necessarily the closing speed of the lid that's the issue,
it's more that we have to close it almost halfway before it will even
begin to close by itself. If I just give it a push to get it started
like I used to, the seat closes but the lid stays still at a weird
angle. The design of the hinges are such that it takes some effort to
close the seat/lid manually due to the dampening mechanism. As long as
we're pushing the lid halfway down, we might as well just push it all
the way, which obviously defeats the purpose of having a self closing
seat/lid.

In addition, if it's happening with the lid now, I'm wondering when it
will happen with the seat.