Ring-pull thingies ...

googling for "flush trapdoor pull" seems to find several, e.g

restricting the search to uk sites looked less promising, but someone must sell 'em.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Burns saying something like:

Cheapy black steel url:

Called a flush cabinet ring or a flush ring.

You can get them at any architectural ironmongers or marine chandlers.

e.g.

Screwfix item 85262

Bob

Do they still do them? They used to, but that's a no-show on their website.

Bob

Can you recheck where you found that number from for me please ? I entered it into the search bar on their site, and it comes back not found. 85260 gets a result, and it's hardware like door bolts, so in the right vicinity. It would certainly be handy if they do do them, as there is a trade counter a few miles away, and I could pick up a couple without having to mess about with the post.

TIA

Arfa

Thanks for the link

Arfa

Thanks for the link. That one looks a bit mediaeval. I was thinking more in terms of the one that Dave O pointed me to. A bit pricey though ...

Arfa

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Arfa Daily" saying something like:

Look at the bottom of that webpage.

Apologies - I was using the paper catalogue dated winter 2009

Bob

Grimly old boy, I'm so embarrassed ! How could I have missed that ? I put it down to old age ...

Thanks to you and thanks to Owain for the original pointer. Two nice shiny brass ones, with extremely reasonable postage, now on their way. Now, 38mm. That's not by any chance the same diameter as the recess for a kitchen cabinet door hinge, is it ? :-)

Arfa

Nope - that is 35mm

Bob

Trapdoors are :-)

Owain

Ah, but not in a deck where there is a bloody great manhole cover underneath, that may need to be got at at some point. I made an insert of boards that sits on frame all round, and was going to just bore finger holes through for lifting it out, but then I thought it would be a lot neater to put proper lift-up ring pulls in it.

Arfa

Dammit ! Too good to be true, I suppose. Still, I guess I can use the hinge rebater to take out a 35mm recess, and then just 'open up' the extra 1.5mm all round, with a small chisel.

Arfa

Its a lot neater to just screw a handle on when you need to lift it.

Nice bit of lateral thinking there.