Just fitted a new toilet seat, and it's doing the same as this video I found:
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Like theirs, the seat IS leaning back, so it's not the position that's wrong (although Ihave selected the forward-most point on the hinge setting).
Are looseats supposed to be cushioned movement like this, or is the hinge broken? I tried some light oil and some WD40, but it still won't stay up until I push it up about 5 or 6 times.
I was given it by my uncle who was tidying out his garage. It's never been used, but it's been sat unused in the garage for years.
I can't see how soft close could possibly work. The idea is basically flawed. It's not intelligent, so it can't tell the difference between you lifting and lowering the seat. So the lift is also soft. Which means you can't lift it quickly as it tries to push it back. It'll stay up if you hold it up for long enough (about 10 seconds).
I've Heath Robinsoned it by swapping all the half hinges about causing both the soft ones to be on the lid, and none on the seat. For some reason the lid doesn't suffer from the same problem. I suppose it's tilted further back. Maybe that's the problem - the design of my toilet means that the seat cannot tilt quite so far back, even with the hinges set to the furthest point. It is a fair angle though, and I don't think I've ever seen a toilet seat which tilts further than this.
What's the point of soft close anyway? So it doesn't wake someone up when you drop it in the middle of the night? It doesn't damage a toilet seat to drop it.
But it does. we have two at home and they're great.
Well it's clear that yours is flawed. Mine lift easily with a just perceptible resistance but there is no "spring back". The lids close softly when flipped towards the closed position.
Well that's one good reason. Another is that in general, the hinges are far better engineered than the usual "crap" offerings.
I was responding to you saying you bought them together so they matched. I was simply dismissing that you have to buy things together to make them match.
Like I said, I have no idea what's available. I was simply disagreeing with your statement that you preferred to buy the hinge with the seat **so they matched**.
Many moons ago there was a seat that came with a little self adhesive plate. There was a magnet embedded in the front top of the seat and the plate was glued to the cistern at the pint it touched it. Worked very well as long as the cistern had a flat front in the right place. Brian
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