Hinge Help, please

[Gary Hitchcock]

:confused: I got a good deal at a yard sale, got few hundred hinges in a bag,
got them home and found that they did not have screw holes, but had a small kerf that you press into the wood.
I'v beet'em with hammers, pressed'em but can't get'em to stick,
Their thin brass and bend very easy, I can get one side to stick but the other side needs to be embedded from the different direction.
I'm building small boxes of 1/2 pine or popular.
How do you get them to stick ?

Their like these.
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=16927

[Casey Carr]

If you go to your Rockler link, click on the More Info tab. Default tab is the Overview tab. Tabs are right below the picture. Click on the Data sheet once on the More Info tab.

I've never even seen these before, so I could be totally wrong here, but it looks like you have to use a biscuit cutter to cut a slot on both the pieces you're trying to use. Then they get inserted into the slots? If it were me and without instructions, I think I would have been 90 degrees off on the install. Maybe you are too?

[D.McDonnel "Mac"]

The more info tab is helpfull but look at the "Data Sheet" and it will confirm your suspicions about the biscuit slots!

[Tom Sontag]

They do not use a "Norm-style" biscuit cutter but rather a special slot cutter you attach to a drill or drill press. The slot is much thinner than a biscuit joiner would give. The barbed parts only catch and work if the slot is just the right thickness.

[glenn bradley]

Yer lookin' fer sumpin like dis: http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=18652&filter=27646&pn=27646
(http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=18652&filter=27646&pn=27646)

[Gary Hitchcock]

Thank you all, I guess I need to find my glasses,

Da Ha