Cabinet Door Hinge Broken

Cabinets made from particleboard work great in utility and laundry rooms and they re fairly inexpensive.

Cabinet door hinge broken.

But particleboard has a major weakness it doesn t hold screw threads very well. Called blum at 1 800 438 6788 and told them i had a broken hinge. Just wanted to know if i had been shipped anything else before. How to repair a broken door hinge.

Many forums said to use a wood dowel with a hole drilled in but then you have the potential risk of sp. You can learn to live with most cabinet door hinge problems if you aren t up for the adjustment process. This leaves the demountable style of hinges with very little use in the new production cabinet industry. In many cases a little disassembly cleaning and rea.

They didn t ask any other questions about the hinge. After searching the web i couldn t find a simple solution to repairing the stripped screws on our crappy particle board cabinets in the kitchen. Hinge pins that are not fully inserted into the hinge. The majority of sales of these demountable type hinges today are for the replacement retrofit market.

But it s one i m putting out there because this loose screw problem also happened to a friend of min. Hi everyone it s a really simply home diy repair today. Cabinet frame part inside. All of these issues could interfere with the hinge s self closing ability.

If you have cabinet door hinge related problems that can t be solved with an adjustment you may have to consider the alternatives. The cabinet door might overlap the neighboring door be crooked or sit too far out from the cabinet face. So if you swing the door open too fast the force can rip the hinge screw right out of the cabinet wall. Concealed european cabinet hinges also known as hidden hinges have taken over the market.

Over time the weight of a door can cause screws to pull out of their holes and make the hinges loose. In this video mike from the geek pub shows us how to repair or replace european style cabinet hinges. Repairing stripped cabinet hinges. They asked what the number on the front was and i told them 110.

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