Friday, March 18, 2016

Installing the Hinge Piece

Next I glued on my new hinge piece and clamped it overnight.  

Next I reinstalled the motor so I wouldn't have the lid in the way later.

When I removed the hinges during the disassembly process, I was not sure if the mix of phillips head and slotted head screws were original.  I looked at Ebay listings for Edison hinge and screw listings and found that in many cases this is how the hinges came.

I assembled the hinges to the lid and then temporarily held the assembly over the cabinet and marked the new hinge hole screw locations with a pencil.  This ensured I had the correct hinge to hinge spacing.  I then drilled a pilot hole for each of the screws since I didn't want to split the new wood piece.

I removed the hinges from the lid and installed them on the hinge piece as shown below.



Finally I reinstalled the lid lock lever and the lid.....All done!

Picture of lid lock taken during disassembly and prior to cleaning.

Note: To clean the metal hinges And other metal pieces I soaked them in denatured alcohol for a few minutes and then gently cleaned with 0000 steel wool

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