Where can I buy hinges that open only to 90 degrees?
nancyaustin
14 years ago
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Comments (3)I've got a F&P single door bottom freezer fridge. Mine is in a 36" cabinet opening with cabinets on one side and a side panel on the other. The doors sit proud of the cabinet opening -- the fridge body is cabinet depth, the doors are in front -- and we have no trouble accessing the bins. Our model is the one with the freezer door with pullout shelves behind it, not the one where the whole freezer pulls out as one big drawer. I checked, and our freezer shelves can be pulled out with the freezer door opened 90 degrees. The fridge door, however, needs to be opened a bit farther to allow the produce bins to pull all the way out, because the door shelves get in the way if the door is at 90 degrees. You can open the bins and access the contents with the door at 90 degrees, but you can pull them out an extra inch or two if you open the door to more like 110-120 degrees. Just another note on organization. If you are getting one without a deli drawer, like ours, and decide you want a drawer, the Container Store regular size shoe drawers fit great inside this fridge. (Most fridge bins are too long front-to-back for a counter-depth fridge.) It took me a while to find something that would work, so I thought I'd share. The link is below. And just in case you're getting the same model with the freezer door that we have, the bottom "shelf" is a deep bin. I had the hardest time finding something to organize that thing, but it turned out that IKEA Kusiner boxes (in children's storage) fit perfectly, 3 in a row side by side: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20163265 (Sorry, I've tried about 10 ways to make that a clickable link but none of the codes I've tried work on this forum, and I can't find the instructions quickly.) Here is a link that might be useful: Container Store clear shoe drawer...See More180-degree hinge
Comments (14)OK, I donned my spotted reading glasses and hopped to. There are the itsy bitsiest of numbers inside the hinges. They're all the same (at least on one door of three hinges; I presume it would be the same on the other, with the same problem). It took some doing but I figured out how to pop out the hinges. The middle one didn't pop like the upper and bottom, so I was thinking this might be a clue. But eventually I got it out and I'm not so sure it means much except perhaps about the relative position of the hinges' installation. I iteratively removed one hinge first from the middle, replaced it then the top, replaced then the bottom. Same click for all when only a pair attached, regardless of which pair. I figured out there's a little white plastic doo-hickey inside that is the starting point of the click-part (it doesn't actually make an audible sound, just there's a - what's the word? - a stop that you have to push through). I also notice a big ole space which I'm pretty sure is where you're supposed to pop the part that provides the soft closure -- they're Blum hinges. I tried to take some pictures. Here's a shot of the white doo-hickey making contact inside the hinge. I think this is what is needing pushing away: Also, this picture shows the big hole that - correct me if I'm wrong - can accept a soft-close piece of hardware? Here's the door open: The white plastic doo-hickey that comes out and is I think what's responsible for the hitting, is hiding out of sight. If it helps in any way, the numbers, visible in the cavity behind the hole, but only with a flashlight, much tilting of the head and magnifying of the field are: "70.610-04" and then centered underneath "01". I guess the next question is: what can be adjusted? I'm hesitant to start screwing around (get it?) as I might get it so out of whack I'll be worse off than before and unable to return to "here". I notice a giant screw in the back, out of sight of these pictures, that looks like a target and therefore I'm guessing is for adjustment. But don't these screws do things like move the door panel up-down, and right-left? This isn't a closing adjustment is it? Thanks for any thoughts.......See MoreFD Fridge, 90 degree opening, full access?
Comments (8)Okay, I can see where the confusion came from. I still can't find that thread on zero-clearance doors, but even with a zero clearance door swing to the right, you would still have the interior door framing for the door bins blocking removal of the right hand crisper drawer if you can't get the door to swing past 90°. That seems to be true whether you go with a 36" wide zero-clearance FD model (assuming one can be found) or with a 33" model that looks like the picture you posted above. (Which, incidentally, looks exactly like my KitchenAid.) Anyway, you may need to check your notes because I cannot find any current free-standing single-door bottom freezer fridges that are 36" wide. The biggest ones all seem to be in the 33" class and they all seem to have projecting door handles and door storage bins. Could not find any 36" wide SDBF models when I checked the Whirlpool website as well as AJ Madison who seems to have pretty much every model currently made. FWIW, in the 33" wide class, the FD and SDBF models come off the same assembly lines and differ mainly in how they hang the doors. There really isn't any significant difference in capacity. There are 36" wide FD models with larger capacity but there don't seem to be any free-standing SDBF equivalents that I can find in that size. Seems like a Hobson's choice. With an SDBF, you can swing the door to the right against your side wall, which would give you ready access from the fridge to the left-side counter but leaves you with the problem of not being able to take out the right-side crisper drawer. Mount the door to swing to the left and you solve the drawer removal problem but pretty much block easy access for taking things from the fridge to put them on the counter next to it (or vive versa when bringing groceries to it). With a FD model, you get the drawer problem with only some of the blockage problem. Is there a counter or island opposite the fridge. FWIW, I just did a little experiment with my 33"-wide FD fridge. I wondered if it might it might be possible to get enough of an angle on the right door by leaving off the projecting door handle. I found that with the door swung a little over 2 inches wider, and, if I pulled the left hand crisper drawer first, then it was just just barely possible to wiggle the right crisper drawer past the bin framing. That's a real kludge. You'd be limited to a 33" wide FD model and would have to keep an allen (hex) wrench handy to remove and replace the right door handle whenever you needed to remove that right hand crisper drawer. Maybe with enough responsive postings now, we'll attract the attention of somebody with better information....See Morenancyaustin
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