fittings for take-apart cupboard
 

"Martin Trautmann" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I want to build a cupboard which basically will be composed from three
vertical plates (about 50 x 200 cm) and six horizontal boards (50 x 50)
in between. A further extension shall be possible, as indicated below.

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The cupboard shall be demountable for easy transport.

Material will be three-layer fir (20 mm thick).

What's your recommendation? The standard fitting here in Germany for
this purpose is an excenter to the edge of the horizontal board on a
bolt in the side of the vertical board:

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------+| | +--------
+----+| | +-----+
-I=====X==X==-+ I__X__I--
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left center right
board excenter in board


Since I'm not that happy with these excenters, I wanted to have a look
whether e.g. the US market offers better ideas.


Sorry, if my description is somehow confusing, when I translated
incorrectly from German ideas. Tell me, and I'll try to give further
explanation or images (of the fittings or the building plan as a
children's cupboard, front as lighthouse tower, sides to climb up/down
or mount things).

Thanks for sharing your ideas,
Martin

All of the good knock-down hardware I find here in North America seems to
come from Europe.
--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
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