bigbrian wrote in message
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On 4 Jul 2003 10:32:08 -0700, (Michael
McNeil) wrote:

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"bigbrian" wrote in message
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With apologies for the amateur explanation.....

I've got a problem with a kitchen cupboard door. Its the one under
the
oven, and its next to another cupboard that has a drawer above it.
The
one I have a problem with has no drawer above it, but is the same
height as the adjacent cupboard and drawer combined.

Still with me?

In order that the door panelling wasn't out of synch, the cupboard
under the oven has a dummy drawer front (without a knob) built into
the top of the door, so that when you open the door, the door and the
dummy drawer front open together to reveal the inside of the
cupboard.
The problem is that the dummy drawer front has detached itself from
the rest of the door.

It looks like it had been held on by a couple of metal pins fitted
into both the top of the door, and the bottom of the dummy drawer
front....these have both sheared offleaving the top of the
door..er...topless.

My next move is........?

Thanks

Brian



Hi BigBrian,

Pick up a bit of 6 mm plywood, about the width of the door and about
100 mm
wide itself. Some glue, and 6 by 12 mm gauge 6 wood
screws.

Nothing visible from
the front, apart from the drawer and door, and once fixed back into
place on
the cupboard. Jobs done. :-))

It's a lot easier than trying to find metal plates and it's a whole lot
cheaper.

I take it that the doors are not returnable? And you have looked at
the dowels holding them and they are irreplacable?

One more thing is paint a black line to overlap both doors so that the
closed door will appear to have a shadow between them. I think you
will have a job glueing melamine with pva. If it fails, scrape it off
and try some superglue.

If that fails.....

I think I'm going to go with the metal backplate option and not worry
about whether its visible through the gap

Brian

Why not replace the original metal pins with something a bit more
substantial - such as 5mm steel rods. [You could use a filing tray
separator, sawn in half]. They needn't be in exactly the same place if you
can't get the sheared bits out.

Simply drill a couple of 5mm holes (or whatever size the rods are) downwards
into the top edge of the door - and a corresponding pair upwards into the
bottom edge of the dummy drawer. If you have still got the original plastic
spacer washers, drill them out to 5mm too, then re-assemble the whole thing,
with the ends of the steel rods araldited into the holes.

Roger

P.S. If necessary, ask Sasha Klamp to hold it all together while the glue
sets g.