Help with kitchen overhead cabinet hinges

[John Smith]

Two of the hinge mounts have fractured in a 2-part lift up cabinet door at the place were the hinges are mounted on the lower frame.

Does anyone know if I can buy replacement hinges and also how they are mounted in the frame, which is a heavy glass panel with an aluminium frame (I think). I can't work out what the two mounting bolts are and presume the frame has to be dismantled?

i enclose pics. I have taken the lower panel off.

Also, the screws for the lisf up arms are enclosed in sleeves and a couple of the sleeves have come out of the frame. What is the remedy also...

Thanks

Fractured mount (from hinge)

Fractured hinge now missing mount Hinge again What cabinet looks like Screw holes for lift up arm one with sleeve Arm mount with sleeve pulled out...

[Tricky Dicky]

The sleeves on the stays are called rivet nuts and are available from good hardware stores or car part sellers. You will need an rivet nut setting tool which is not too dissimilar to a pop riveter.

As for the hinges, are there no manufacturers marks on them. Look for names like Blum, Hafele there are quite a few kitchen hardware suppliers you might want to Google.

Richard

[Nick Odell]

I can't really help with the hinges but we recently replaced failed latching door stays like yours with gas struts - check out Amazon item B00I0ACL9K to see the sort of thing I mean.

The only reservation I have about the gas struts is that you need to do some arithmetic to work out their power vs the weight and angle of the door and discover whether you will need two or just one. You need to take positioning into consideration depending on whether you want the door to stop open at 90 degrees or less or more - because that affects the power rating too.

On the other hand they take up less usable room inside the cabinet (they stand upright at the front when closed and don't penetrate the storage space) and we are very happy with them.

Good luck!

Nick

[Andy Burns]

If it wasn't for the fractured bracket, I'd say you could drill out the holes and fit rivnuts to get somewhere to bolt into instead of the sleeves

[John Smith]

Thanks for that. So i can fix the rivets.

The hinges are a problem though - the only marks on them are a number 1 on both of the hinge parts. I guess I'll try emailing pics to suppliers. It's the mounting in the lower metal panel that's the issue not the upper mount as the upper panel is just wood.

I'm wondering if the glass/metal panel came ready prepped with the hinges.

[Theo]

I found these people helpful when replacing hinges (which were made by them originally):

There's an address on the bottom to email pics to.

It might also help to take some measurements, including the angle of opening (eg 110 or 165 degrees)

Theo

[wasbit]

Perhaps caravan fittings suppliers.

[fred]

I would imagine Salice hinges would have their name on them. Salice are not up there with Blum, quality wise, IMHO, but better than a lot of the no-name tat coming out of the Far East. ( We go through a lot of hinges at times) The fact that the broken hinge has no name on it would worry me. I'd try to find a reputable brand replacement.