ShopReady Draft 2D · 1:03 · narrated, with captions

A flip-up cabinet door on a gas strut, part 3 of 7: Where it binds, and the fix

A motor on the hinge swings the door between its stops, and Check for hits plays it through out of sight and shows where the door first meets the cabinet top. The Clearance tool sets the door 2 off the cabinet. Checked again nothing hits, and by hand the door now opens to its stop.

Before thisA flip-up cabinet door on a gas strut, part 2 of 7: A pin, stops, and a pull by hand NextA flip-up cabinet door on a gas strut, part 4 of 7: Fixing points, weight, and a strut

This is one part of a longer film

Whole project · 7:09

A flip-up cabinet door on a gas strut: the whole project

A wall cabinet's flip-up door, from a blank drawing to the strut to buy and where to screw it. The cabinet is drawn from the side with rectangles and typed sizes; the door is pinned at its hinge with stops and pulled by hand; Check for hits finds the door's back corner binding on the cabinet top and the Clearance tool gives it a 2 mm reveal. A gas strut between two drawn studs is sized by the program (71.6 N holds this 3 kg door level; an 80 N strut is fitted), let go to see the door stay shut and stay open, and its fixing point is tried in a worse place and put back. The last chapter reads off the strut's lengths, saves a film of the swing and dimensions the fixing points.

The rest of this project

Chapter · 1:09

A flip-up cabinet door on a gas strut, part 1 of 7: The cabinet from the side

Chapter · 52 s

A flip-up cabinet door on a gas strut, part 2 of 7: A pin, stops, and a pull by hand

Chapter · 1:11

A flip-up cabinet door on a gas strut, part 4 of 7: Fixing points, weight, and a strut

Chapter · 55 s

A flip-up cabinet door on a gas strut, part 5 of 7: The strut to buy

Chapter · 1:13

A flip-up cabinet door on a gas strut, part 6 of 7: What the hinge holds, and moving a fixing point

Chapter · 1:45