Kitchen cabinet bracket - explanation needed!
AL_n
kitchen. The brackets used for hanging the cabinets are a kind that I've
never encountered before. There is one located in the top corners inside
each cabinet. A hook extends out of the back, which hooks onto a small
metal rail which is screwed to the wall with two screws.
They are very similar top this one: http://tinyurl.com/3pndh2q
However, the ones I have do not have any screw heads visible on the large
face, unlike th eone in the above picture..
There is a screw head on the end that faces you when you look into the
cabinet, and there is a screw head on the underside of the bracket, but
none on the large face.
I would have thought that the screw head facing me would tighten the hook
projecting from the back of the cabinet, but it doesn't seem to do
anything. The screw visible on the underside also doesn't seem to do
anything.
I wanted to remove one of the brackets to look inside it, to see how it
works, but I cannot figure out how to remove it.
Can anyone enlighten me?
TIA
Al
Tony Bryer
> They are very similar top this one: http://tinyurl.com/3pndh2q
>
> However, the ones I have do not have any screw heads visible on the large
> face, unlike th eone in the above picture..
>
> There is a screw head on the end that faces you when you look into the
> cabinet, and there is a screw head on the underside of the bracket, but
> none on the large face.
>
> I would have thought that the screw head facing me would tighten the hook
> projecting from the back of the cabinet, but it doesn't seem to do
> anything. The screw visible on the underside also doesn't seem to do
> anything.
>
> I wanted to remove one of the brackets to look inside it, to see how it
> works, but I cannot figure out how to remove it.
On the ones I've seen, the screw facing down is for levelling and the one
facing you pulls the cabinet back to the wall. Are you sure that there isn't
a press-fix cover concealing the fixing screws?
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Melbourne, Australia www.greentram.com
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There could be a cover over the screw heads on the adjustable cabinet hook.
They press on to make things look pretty.
If you're just moving the cabinet, then don;t really need to remove the
hook. Use the screws that can see on the slim face and under side of the
hook to push the hook out the back of the cabinet and loosen the hook. They
act like normal screws, counter-clockwise to make the hook longer etc' and
the bottom one makes the hook go up and down to level the cabinet once hung
on the wall bracket.
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AL_n
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> There could be a cover over the screw heads on the adjustable cabinet
> hook. They press on to make things look pretty.
>
> If you're just moving the cabinet, then don;t really need to remove
> the hook. Use the screws that can see on the slim face and under side
> of the hook to push the hook out the back of the cabinet and loosen
> the hook. They act like normal screws, counter-clockwise to make the
> hook longer etc' and the bottom one makes the hook go up and down to
> level the cabinet once hung on the wall bracket.
I've solved the puzzle. The brackets had two prokecting studs which pushed
into the side wall of the cabinet - hence the absence of fixing screws. The
reason the two visible screws didn't do anything was because the horizontal
one had been unscrewed too far. After I got the bracket off, I was able to
engage that screw into the back-end of the hook component. After that, it
worked properly. The vertical screw, which adjusts the height of the hook,
have flattened ends to prevent them from being inscrewed to far. I don't
know why they didin't use the same type of screw for the horizontal ones,
but there you go.
Thanks you both for the help.
Al