Blum Hinges

[JW]

I originally asked for advice for Blum hinges back in March last year, and received some good advice. I have recently renewed all of our kitchen hinges, apart from those on two doors which have caught me out a little.

The majority of our doors are connected with the standard Blum hinge, as the door is at 90deg to the carcass side. However, on two of the doors, the hinged side of the door is currently connected to the thin edge of the 18mm carcass. This means that the standard Blum hinge mount is of no use. But I cannot see an equivalent hinge mount in the current range on the Blum site, or on ebay.

I've probably made a pigs ear of explaining this, so here are two pictures.

The new hinges, on the normal cupboard doors:

The existing hinges on the 'odd' cupboard doors:

You can clearly see that the fixing screws on the mounting hinge are thrown further towards the front of the hinge on the 'oldhinge' picture.

An idea on what I need to do? Do I need some form of 180-270 degree hinge or something?

[andrew]

I'm not sure, but would this work:

slightly different hinge than the old one, but it looks as if it might achieve the same thing.

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[JW]

doors:

> The existing hinges on the 'odd' cupboard doors:>>> You can clearly see that the fixing screws on the mounting hinge are thrown

Thanks, it does look like it might fit, but unfortunately, I don't think I could fit the Blumotion soft-close adaptor to that (should have mentioned that on the original posting - sorry!)

Blum fittings are strange. Their online catalogue lists all of their brand new fancy fittings, but all you ever seem to find elsewhere, are the standard fittings (which are fine - but annoying that you can't see dimensions etc in catalogues).

[Skipweasel]

Have you tried Woodfit?

might list some of the more obscure sort.

[JW]

Thanks - I can't see anything that will do the job on there - but it's proven useful, as it's shown me the part numbers of what I already have for the new 'normal' hinges, so I can use that as a search method now too.

[JW]

Just a quick follow up, in case anyone is interested. I'm going to buy some standard new Blum Modal hinges, which will attach to the existing 'odd and now seemingly unavailable' back plates.

I'll then use hinge-side Blum pistons to get the soft-close effect, getting them into the carcass frame using the Blum jig.