top of door ball bearing spring
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At the top of my closet doors on each door there is a ball bearing
that keeps the door shut
when you close it. Below the ball bearing in the door is a spring.
Does anybody know what this is called and where I can get a
replacement.
Art
There are 2 qualities.... junk and decent ones. My builder put in junk.
You can recognize junk because the height adjustment also affects the
spring pressure which is stupid.
Look for the ones where when you adjust the height the spring pressure
doesn't change. Hard to explain but you will see the difference if you find
them. The junk were generic brand from China, the others were a real name
brand of some sort. They fit in the same holes.
The reason the spring pressure issue is important is that if you need the
cheap ones adjusted low the spring is completely compacted and is unhappy
and evenutually breaks the door stop.
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Smitty Two
qjohn...@gmail.com wrote:
Not familiar with those gadgets for closet doors, but in other
applications that type of mechanism is often called a "ball plunger."
qjohn...@gmail.com
> I don't know what they are called but lowes and home depot sells them.
>
> There are 2 qualities.... junk and decent ones. My builder put in junk.
>
> You can recognize junk because the height adjustment also affects the
> spring pressure which is stupid.
>
> Look for the ones where when you adjust the height the spring pressure
> doesn't change. Hard to explain but you will see the difference if you find
> them. The junk were generic brand from China, the others were a real name
> brand of some sort. They fit in the same holes.
>
> The reason the spring pressure issue is important is that if you need the
> cheap ones adjusted low the spring is completely compacted and is unhappy
> and evenutually breaks the door stop.
>
Thanks - sounds like I had the cheap ones as my wife opened the door
and the ball bearing popped out - I tried to fix it but the ball
bearing keeps
coming out.
dadiOH
Ball catch. Any hardware place.
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Art
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but it will break again. Buy one of the good ones instead.
eric...@optonline.net
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> I don't know what this is but wondering if anybody knows.
>
> At the top of my closet doors on each door there is a ball bearing
> that keeps the door shut
> when you close it. Below the ball bearing in the door is a spring.
>
> Does anybody know what this is called and where I can get a
> replacement.
Stormin Mormon
in a nursing home, account of 85% second and third
degree burns. But, I'm sure his estate still needs
ball catches. He can put some in the ashes at the
foundation of his house.
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BenDarrenBach
> The 2007 guy, his house burned down and he now lives
>
> in a nursing home, account of 85% second and third
>
> degree burns. But, I'm sure his estate still needs
>
> ball catches. He can put some in the ashes at the
>
> foundation of his house.
tom4
Hello Eric. I wish I had found your method earlier. I had to make a few
mistakes before I found out the same thing. Surely your method is also the
one the inventor/manufacturer of the ball catch figured out, to keep the ball
from flying out.
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