Phillip Mitchell
05-05-2019, 10:44 AM
I’ve got a bit of a dilemma and am hoping to draw on the vast experience this forum has to offer.
Ive made / installed these solid Cherry hinged bench tops for a client as part of a larger custom interior remodel and the soft close lid stays that I selected aren’t strong enough for these bench tops. When closing, the benches go from fully open to about 60-70* open and the weight of the tops becomes too much for the soft close lid stay and they slam shut. I was concerned during design and fabrication that this would likely be an issue, but this hardware was the best I could find online at the time.
These tops are 2” thick and about 16” deep (from the hinge point) read: heavy...
Pretty much all of the soft close lid stays for bench top application are designed for 3/4 ply tops.
Does anyone have any advice, thoughts, particular products or hardware to recommend for this situation?
This can be the hardest part of doing custom work like this for clients...finding and figuring out the appropriate hardware for these atypical situations.
The concealed SOSS hinges are working great, but obviously offer no amount of soft close support.
thanks for any help!
Ive made / installed these solid Cherry hinged bench tops for a client as part of a larger custom interior remodel and the soft close lid stays that I selected aren’t strong enough for these bench tops. When closing, the benches go from fully open to about 60-70* open and the weight of the tops becomes too much for the soft close lid stay and they slam shut. I was concerned during design and fabrication that this would likely be an issue, but this hardware was the best I could find online at the time.
These tops are 2” thick and about 16” deep (from the hinge point) read: heavy...
Pretty much all of the soft close lid stays for bench top application are designed for 3/4 ply tops.
Does anyone have any advice, thoughts, particular products or hardware to recommend for this situation?
This can be the hardest part of doing custom work like this for clients...finding and figuring out the appropriate hardware for these atypical situations.
The concealed SOSS hinges are working great, but obviously offer no amount of soft close support.
thanks for any help!