Thread: How to get perfect lid close on 2mm plywood box?

How about glueing a strip of appropriately sized wood to the top inside edge of the back panel of the box? The lower hinge leaf would then have somewhere to attach that is thicker than a 2mm edge and the lid could be slid back to make it flush with the back panel of the box.


Paul

How attached are you to those hinges? Don't mind taking a chance with 'em?

For that style of hinge, the centre of the hinge-pin needs to be either in-line with or fractionally past the outside edge of the back panel to work properly.

If you have a good vice with nice, crisply squared jaws, you could clamp the tail end of one leaf in the vice and carefully bend the leaf to a right-angle. So it'd sit on top of the back panel with the pin on the outside face and the excess tail hanging down, inside of the box. At this scale you need to be pretty accurate or else any errors in sizing would make it look half-arsed.

I'd also look at rebating the leaves into the lid and back-panels of the box with a small chisel, to give a nice, flush finish...

Originally Posted by Tegmark

Hi all.

This is my box made from 2mm ply. eewew.jpg

If i use these very small hinges there is a gap at the rear of the box as shown in the pic. I intend to glue the hinges on.

What small hinges & method will avoid the gap & still allow the lid to open without hitting the box? Small as in 1cm across.

Please help thank you

As stated above, you will have to let the leaf of the hinge into the ply to exactly the thickness of the hinge leaf.

Andy