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Questions tagged [hinge]

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What is this locking pin for a hinge called?

The following is a picture of a locking pin for a tubular hinge which specifies Maritime use. I assume it has something to do with railings but I'm thinking of fabricating my own similar hinges. "Locking pin" seems awfully vague. I know I've seen…
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Non-standard Door Hinge Spacing

The usual woodworker/house builder rule of thumb is to place the top hinge 6" (150 mm) from the top of the door, and the bottom one 9" (228 mm) from the bottom - the common reason for this is illusion of "foreshortening" and this results in a visual…
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Rotating two aluminium planes flat: looking for hinge techniques and nomenclature

I am trying to come up with a way to design two flat aluminium parts to allow these to rotate in the same plane, but I seem to lack the proper words to find more information on this. I'll illustrate what I mean with this practical example of a LEGO…
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Pivot material for linkage hinge?

*** modified design with new gas spring approach -I couldn't find shoulder bushing with large enough shoulder diameter so I will buy nylon tubing and cut them to lenght (Item 11) and add abs washer I can make (Item 13 and 14) I agree about the load…
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Need help identifying hinge

I saw this hinge (circled in red). I am making the same thing and I would like to know what kind of hinge is this and how it is fixed. The black box which t is allowing to see saw is not supposed to have any holes in it. Its a dark box.
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Pivot Hinge for Glass Panel

I have a pane of 6mm toughened glass that is 2 m high, 0.7 m wide and weighs 21 kg. I've been trying to find some pivot hinges that can handle this glass and also pivot at the corner of the glass. All the pivot hinges I've found so far that pivot at…
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What components to use to build rocking bench?

I want to build a bench that a user would lie face down on, like a weights bench, however this bench should be able to rock to each side around 30degrees. So I need the bench top to sit on some kind of hinge. This should be able to take up to say…
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Determining pivot point for arcade cabinet lid

I have been constructing my own candy cab-style arcade cabinet, modeled after the Capcom Q25, that has the ability to rotate the monitor so I can play games in both landscape and portrait orientation. Because the cabinet needed to be a specific…
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How can I open a door? There's gotta be something simpler!

I'm trying to open a door. More precisely, I'm trying to design a mechanism to open and close a door mechanically which also allows me to open the door manually. Now, I thought this would be fairly straightforward - just a simple servo, a rod, and…
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Help making 4-5 stage chair recline hinge that you pull forward slightly to drop one stage

We are building reclining sitting chairs with a 4-5 stage ratchet backrest. ISSUE: all the ratchet hinges we can find require the backrest to be pushed all the way down or pulled all the way up before adjusting it to the desired level. This requires…
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What type of fastener / rivet is this please?

I think I may have worked this out but I would love it if a real engineer could confirm it please? Is the fixing shown in the photos a shoulder rivet? Semi tubular? For the record the pictures show a collapsible music stand, the metal legs shown…
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Duplicate a sketch on a spiral like array of lines in solidworks

This one is gonna be hard for me to explain, but I hope you will get it I have this sketch: Each side of this part is half of it, to be easily duplicate / mirror / pattern Important to note the both ends of this chain needs to be just the half (so…
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Compliant mechanism that can resist shear force

Looking for a compliant mechanism that can witsdent sheat force but still move in another axis Is there such compliant mechanism that can resist shear force but still bend like a hinge? Is it even possible?
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Hinge type 90degree max

I'm looking for a hinge that can open a maximum of 90 degrees will open fully by gravity alone approx 20mm wide approx 50mm long each arm approx 10mm thick when closed Is this something that can be sourced? Could it be 3D printed?
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