Hanging Kitchen cabinet doors


John Veevers

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I believe it's called a screw dowel (or screwdowel).  Try googling hinge plastic dowel - it should generate some options for ordering them on-line (probably pay more for shipping than the product).  Once you identify the product, you can probably call some local hardware stores to see if you can find it.

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Cup hinges come 2 ways, knock in ( dowels are already mounted on the hinge) and screw in (no dowels). Hinge brand might affect the dowels. Die cast cups use a different dowel from the stamped steel cups (which have a countersink for the screw) .

If you haven't discarded the old doors you can carefully cut around the dowels without hitting the plastic and pick at the MDF to free them undamaged. I think the hole is 8mm. Placement of the dowel holes in relation to the cup hole is critical.

I often just use a Vix countersink bit to center a pilot hole for the screw. You can put a few drops of epoxy in the holes and after it's cured re-pilot. The epoxy soaked into the MDF will help prevent the screws from stripping out.

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