Greetings. I have a project coming up that includes a wall cabinet – with double doors. The customer wants the doors to open 90 degrees and than push back into the opening . I have found some Accurides that seem to do this (model 123 I think), although I am not sure if they will work with flush mounted doors and face-frame, the way I plan to set this job up.
Anyone with experience in this department – help greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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its doable
accuride does have the hardware u need for framed openings, i cant think of the model off the top of my head, but u will need to space the hardware off the side of the cabinet to line it up properly with the opening
You can also roll your own by mounting some sort of hinge on a vertical board that is suspended between two drawer slides. Takes some planning/head scratching, of course.
It would have to be a really light door and really heavy duty slides with alot of friction. The key to those special openings is that they keep the door from tilting down when the door is open and pivoting pressure in on that bottom slide, and they do that with a solid axle between two rack & pinion gears.
Thanks for ...
... the suggestions. Does anyone have a specific model number or name of a pivot hinge that they know of that works with flush mounted doors in face-frames? Thanks.
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when you get out of this place, and go to both WoodWeb's cabinetmaking forum, and Hafele's online catalog. Pocket door hardware is what you are after, and both those locations offer far richer content than here.
You might want to adopt the term inset doors, so as to be using the same terminology as most pro cabinetmakers.