On 12/11/2004 4:27 PM Larry Blanchard wrote:

In article ,
says...

Those hinges -- like the
overlay hinges -- seem to throw the knuckle forward into the room, and I
want this door to have as close to hidden hinges as possible.


How about those "barrel" hinges where you drill a hole in each piece,
insert the hinges, and tighten a screw to expand the inge tightly
against the material. Completely hidden and, IIRC, 180 degree opening.

Interesting hinge. I took a look at the pdf over at rockler.com

http://www.rockler.com/tech/28555.pdf

They have "some possible applications" sketches on bottom of the first
page. Mine looks like the leftmost sketch.

So lemme get this straight -- with something like a metric Forstner bit,
you drill a hole into the edge of the cabinet side and the rear of the
door. Shove these puppys in and tighten the screw to expand the body.
Pretty clever!

I don't want to split the MDF on the edge of the cabinet. When the screw
is tightened, how does the barrel expand? Looking at the upper right
sketch on the Rockler pdf ("Tightening Screw"): does the barrel expand
vertically (on that picture) or horizontally. Or just get fatter all
'round? I wonder if the barrel presses against the thin side of the
barrel hole, or against the thick side.

The more expensive route might be Soss hinges.

Yep -- those are mighty pretty hinges.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
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