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Author Topic: Has anyone used Blum CLIP hinges?  (Read 984 times)

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Has anyone used Blum CLIP hinges?
« on: January 29, 2004, 04:12:16 pm »
As stuff is arriving in the mail I think I have decided to switch from a UA1 based design to LuSiDs.  One thing I definately wanted was the option of a removable CP (and I liked the hinged CP a lot of people use around here - seems like it would be easy to work on etc).

While looking around for options I found these CLIP hinges.  They are concealed cabinet hinges that clip onto the mounting plate (which are available separately).

Their site is at:
http://www.blum.us/webv2.nsf/html/US_02_01!OpenDocument

It looks like they just have a spring loaded latch for releasing it so they might be ideal.  

Has anyone used these before?  Is there something I'm missing?
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Re:Has anyone used Blum CLIP hinges?
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2004, 04:57:03 pm »
I'm using similar Salice hinges for cabinet's front door:


For the control panel, though, I just used a piano hinge

because I wanted it to lift up on the side, and the top of the control panel sticks out beyond the box a bit.

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Re:Has anyone used Blum CLIP hinges?
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2004, 05:26:01 pm »
I didn't even think about using them for the front panel door - thats a good idea and could come in handy.  Are they easy to remove?


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Re:Has anyone used Blum CLIP hinges?
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2004, 07:18:09 pm »
I have hinges like this on my kitchen cabinets and they work great there.  I'm sure they'd work just fine in a cabinet as well (after all it is a "cabinet" too).

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Re:Has anyone used Blum CLIP hinges?
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2004, 07:29:20 pm »
They'd work OK, you need a fair bit of depth inside your box for the arm and some extra room to get your finger behind the arm to unclip the hinge from the plate (maybe 3 1/2" total bare minimum). They generally only open 107

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Re:Has anyone used Blum CLIP hinges?
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2004, 10:47:52 pm »
They'd work OK, you need a fair bit of depth inside your box for the arm and some extra room to get your finger behind the arm to unclip the hinge from the plate (maybe 3 1/2" total bare minimum). They generally only open 107
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