cup hinges - pictues with door closed?

[Stephen Tashiro]

I'm trying to understand how one would mount a door on a bookcase to keep out dust as much a possible. I'm attracted by "european cup hinges", but while websites with info for these hinges enthusiastically show pictures with doors open, I didn't find any that show the details of what the fit is like when the door is closed! Can someone direct me to a site that shows this? Are there various ways to mount them to get a tighter seal?

[Bill Neely]

The hinges are generally three way adjustable: in/out; up/down; left/right. Theoretically you can get a perfect fit, the fly in the ointment is that the door and the case need to be perfectly square/flat.

[Chris Tsutsui]

A cup hinge can give a very good seal against dust given the cabinet and door is built perfectly.

You could even use some sort of weather stripping if you wanted it to be air tight.

I think many cup hinges have adjustments so you can even adjust the spacing between the door and cabinet on the hinge side of the door.

I would suggest Blum hinges as a decent quality hinge though harbor freight sells some value hinges that do the job. I installed two dozen harbor freight hinges in a kitchen just yesterday and it wasn't that much different than working with blum hinges only the adjustments on the HF hinges are more difficult to do but they still worked and feel ok...

Here's a cup hinge closed that has vertical adjustment.

http://www.hafele.com/images/euro-hinge_adjustment-vertical.jpg

[Stephen Tashiro]

Thanks for the replies. I'll go look at one of these hinges at Harbor Freight since I've never held one in my hand before.

[Nissim Avrahami]

Those "Euro Hinges" are actually called "Concealed Hinges"...

In general, there are three kind of hinges...

Full Overlay - covers the full opening

Half Overlay - where two doors are installed on one wall (every door is covering half of the single wall)

Inset - the door sits inside the cabinet.

You shall have to choose the hinge according to your cabinets...

If you have one wide cabinet and you want to install two doors (one from each side) or, one wide door, you have to choose the Full Overlay Hinges.

I'm talking about cabinet WITHOUT face frame...I don't know what type of cabinet you have..

It's very easy to install and adjust the doors....if you know how...

Regards
niki

[Lee Schierer]

How about these:

http://woodworker.com/images/ss/131-156.jpg
http://woodworker.com/images/ss/131-168.jpg
http://woodworker.com/images/ss/131-183.jpg
http://woodworker.com/images/ss/131-195.jpg
http://woodworker.com/images/ss/131-210.jpg

[Stephen Tashiro]

I bought some of the hinges to look at and I am beginning to understand them. For a book case, the thickness of the part of the hinge that goes inside the case is a problem since one would like to have the books fit snugly against the side of the case. This simple bookshelf built of 1-by stock. So perhaps a simple solution is thicken the side of the bookcase by adding 1-by stock around the hinges. This would "artificially" recess them. It would only have to be done on the side of the two of the shelves where the hinges are.