It wont stay shut by itself
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From: Rod Speed on 6 Jun 2010 14:31 john hamilton wrote: > When working on my car, I bring it right up close to the house and > lay my tools out on the floor behind the front door. Since you never > know when it will rain, it works out very handy since then all I have > to do is close the door; and don't have to be picking up all the > tools. > Now if its not warm the family doesn't like the cold air coming into > the house and they want the front door shut, which is fair enough. > Since the door just swings open I have to keep getting the keys out > of my pocket to open the door. > > I would like the door to stay shut on its own accord, yet just open > with a push without having to use the keys. There is no room on the > door jamb to screw one of those helical spring self closers. And > anyway in general use we dont want the door to close by itself. Which > also rules out one of those hydraulic self closers which could fit on > at the top of the door. > Have tried using the strongest cuboard magnet I can find (In north > London u.k.), but if the wind picks up surprisingly it will just not > hold. Also tried cutting a thin wedge of cork glued to an upright > jamb which makes the door a tight fit when closed. However the door > shrinks in the summer and expands in the winter so that only works > for about half the year. > Grateful for any suggestions, especially something similar to the cork > arrangement which works just fine prividing the weather suits it. Presumably some form of spring loaded device should work better than the cork, allowing the door expansion and contraction to be handled auto.
From: EXT on 6 Jun 2010 14:26 "Tony Hwang" <dragon40(a)shaw.ca> wrote in message news:6oPOn.41615$Ak3.14701(a)newsfe16.iad... > dpb wrote: >> EXT wrote: >>> "Bob F" <bobnospam(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:hugcjh$ajm$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>>> john hamilton wrote: >>>>> When working on my car, I bring it right up close to the house and >>>>> lay my tools out on the floor behind the front door. ... >>>> >>>> Just about any door latch in the world will fix that. >>> >>> Why not use a tool box next to the car, they close up quick too. >> >> How about a car that doesn't need fixing so much? >> >> -- > > Hi, > That car has Lucas parts. Yeah, I used to work in the auto business in the '50s. I can remember Lucas electrical systems and parts. Took forever to trace out the wiring, and it never went where you thought it should go. Electrical parts were twice the price of North American auto parts.
From: Rod Speed on 6 Jun 2010 14:51 Peter Parry wrote > Jeff The Drunk i-am(a)the.bar wrote >> Really? What kind of hard drive has a big flat magnet inside? > Most modern ones that use voice coil positioning for the heads. All do in fact, stepper motor head positioning is long gone now. >> That defies all logic on the principals of how a hard drive works. > Cunning design (the N and S poles share the same face) and a bit > of shielding keep the magnetic field contained and the platters safe.
From: Bob Eager on 6 Jun 2010 15:23 On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:26:37 -0400, EXT wrote: > "Tony Hwang" <dragon40(a)shaw.ca> wrote in message > news:6oPOn.41615$Ak3.14701(a)newsfe16.iad... >> dpb wrote: >>> EXT wrote: >>>> "Bob F" <bobnospam(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>>> news:hugcjh$ajm$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>>>> john hamilton wrote: >>>>>> When working on my car, I bring it right up close to the house and >>>>>> lay my tools out on the floor behind the front door. ... >>>>> >>>>> Just about any door latch in the world will fix that. >>>> >>>> Why not use a tool box next to the car, they close up quick too. >>> >>> How about a car that doesn't need fixing so much? >>> >>> -- >> >> Hi, >> That car has Lucas parts. > > Yeah, I used to work in the auto business in the '50s. I can remember > Lucas electrical systems and parts. Took forever to trace out the > wiring, and it never went where you thought it should go. Electrical > parts were twice the price of North American auto parts. I seem to remember expensive Wipac parts (Wico-Pacy Corporation of the USA) my my British bike. They weren't much better! -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor
From: Roger Shoaf on 6 Jun 2010 16:04
Pop on over to the locksmith and have him make you a spare key you can leave in the door while you are working on the car. Another option would be to purchase a latch that you can install that does not require a key to operate, or has a function where it can be locked or unlocked as you see fit. These are very common in the US and Canada, and while custom doesn't have them in use in the UK, I would bet that something of this sort is available from your local locksmith. -- Roger Shoaf About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then they come up with this striped stuff. "john hamilton" <bluestarx(a)mail.invalid> wrote in message news:hugc8b$uec$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > When working on my car, I bring it right up close to the house and lay my > tools out on the floor behind the front door. Since you never know when it > will rain, it works out very handy since then all I have to do is close the > door; and don't have to be picking up all the tools. > > Now if its not warm the family doesn't like the cold air coming into the > house and they want the front door shut, which is fair enough. Since the > door just swings open I have to keep getting the keys out of my pocket to > open the door. > > I would like the door to stay shut on its own accord, yet just open with a > push without having to use the keys. There is no room on the door jamb to > screw one of those helical spring self closers. And anyway in general use we > dont want the door to close by itself. Which also rules out one of those > hydraulic self closers which could fit on at the top of the door. > > Have tried using the strongest cuboard magnet I can find (In north London > u.k.), but if the wind picks up surprisingly it will just not hold. Also > tried cutting a thin wedge of cork glued to an upright jamb which makes the > door a tight fit when closed. However the door shrinks in the summer and > expands in the winter so that only works for about half the year. > > Grateful for any suggestions, especially something similar to the cork > arrangement which works just fine prividing the weather suits it. Thanks. > > |