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Mar. 10th, 2024 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
secretagentmooftoday's house fun: the kitchen has all-metal cabinets; I'm guessing they're from the 50s or 60s. One of the cabinet doors doesn't close quite right, and since weez is out of town, I figured I could get up to shenanigans without being disruptive.
The door's hinge is bent enough out of true (about twenty degrees or so) that there's no way that the door is hanging correctly, and the steel is heavy gauge enough that just hitting it with a hammer is insufficient to knock it back into shape. Furthermore, one of the screws that attach the pivot hinge to the door is bent out of shape - like, at about 30 degrees - that there's no way it would ever fit in normally, and the screw hole in the door is massively stripped out as well. I'm guessing that somebody grabbed at and put their full weight on the door and in the aftermath they just didn't care that much about the doors no longer closing properly.
Of course, nobody seems to actually make those hinges these days, and the actual pivot point is only hanging on by a thread. I've ordered some parts from amazon that I hope I'll be able to modify into fitting, and I bought myself a shiny new tap and die set to see if I can get the old door back on without having to cannibalize one of the other kitchen cabinet doors.
Next up, while waiting for parts to arrive: trying to figure out why one of the sockets in the 1950s (?) bathroom-medicine-cabinet-and-light combo doesn't work; I may have to unbolt the thing from the wall, which fills me with no great joy.
Also: long covid fatigue fucking sucks
The door's hinge is bent enough out of true (about twenty degrees or so) that there's no way that the door is hanging correctly, and the steel is heavy gauge enough that just hitting it with a hammer is insufficient to knock it back into shape. Furthermore, one of the screws that attach the pivot hinge to the door is bent out of shape - like, at about 30 degrees - that there's no way it would ever fit in normally, and the screw hole in the door is massively stripped out as well. I'm guessing that somebody grabbed at and put their full weight on the door and in the aftermath they just didn't care that much about the doors no longer closing properly.
Of course, nobody seems to actually make those hinges these days, and the actual pivot point is only hanging on by a thread. I've ordered some parts from amazon that I hope I'll be able to modify into fitting, and I bought myself a shiny new tap and die set to see if I can get the old door back on without having to cannibalize one of the other kitchen cabinet doors.
Next up, while waiting for parts to arrive: trying to figure out why one of the sockets in the 1950s (?) bathroom-medicine-cabinet-and-light combo doesn't work; I may have to unbolt the thing from the wall, which fills me with no great joy.
Also: long covid fatigue fucking sucks
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Date: 2024-03-10 12:00 pm (UTC)