Kitchen cabinet bracket - explanation needed!

[AL_n]

I decided to reposition a couple of the wall-hung kitchen cabinets in my kitchen. The brackets used for hanging the cabinets are a kind that I've never encountered before. There is one located in the top corners inside each cabinet. A hook extends out of the back, which hooks onto a small metal rail which is screwed to the wall with two screws.

They are very similar top this one:

the ones I have do not have any screw heads visible on the large face, unlike th eone in the above picture..

There is a screw head on the end that faces you when you look into the cabinet, and there is a screw head on the underside of the bracket, but none on the large face.

I would have thought that the screw head facing me would tighten the hook projecting from the back of the cabinet, but it doesn't seem to do anything. The screw visible on the underside also doesn't seem to do anything.

I wanted to remove one of the brackets to look inside it, to see how it works, but I cannot figure out how to remove it.

Can anyone enlighten me?

TIA

Al

[Tony Bryer]

On the ones I've seen, the screw facing down is for levelling and the one facing you pulls the cabinet back to the wall. Are you sure that there isn't a press-fix cover concealing the fixing screws?

[BigWallop]

There could be a cover over the screw heads on the adjustable cabinet hook. They press on to make things look pretty.

If you're just moving the cabinet, then don;t really need to remove the hook. Use the screws that can see on the slim face and under side of the hook to push the hook out the back of the cabinet and loosen the hook. They act like normal screws, counter-clockwise to make the hook longer etc' and the bottom one makes the hook go up and down to level the cabinet once hung on the wall bracket.

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[AL_n]

"BigWallop" wrote in news:j26ta7$sv6$ [e-mail]:

I've solved the puzzle. The brackets had two prokecting studs which pushed into the side wall of the cabinet - hence the absence of fixing screws. The reason the two visible screws didn't do anything was because the horizontal one had been unscrewed too far. After I got the bracket off, I was able to engage that screw into the back-end of the hook component. After that, it worked properly. The vertical screw, which adjusts the height of the hook, have flattened ends to prevent them from being inscrewed to far. I don't know why they didin't use the same type of screw for the horizontal ones, but there you go.

Thanks you both for the help.

Al