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11th April 2009, 02:36 PM #1
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Installing a ball catch?
G'day,
About to make a start on installing a ball catch (see pic) into the doors. I was going to mount the ball into the centre of the stile of the doors, before I started out I thought I'd check out Fine Wood Working to confirm how I was going to mount them.
And I found two conflicting articles
One said to mount the ball into the centre of the door stile as I was going to do 
another says to mount the ball into the case and the striker plate into the stile 
What's the general consensus? For aesthetic purposes it might be better to change my idea and mount the ball into the case with the striker plate hidden underneath the door stile.
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11th April 2009, 02:55 PM #2
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Hi Waldo, probably depends on the door, I have mounted quite a few on the bottom (ball) of the door with the striker plate on the cabinet shelf/base. They have been small doors down low if it was a high door above eye line you could put it on top. You will always see something somewhere, just depends which bit you want to see I think.
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11th April 2009, 03:09 PM #3
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Thanks Claw Hama, the doors are 400mm x 500mm (H), I'm thinking the ball mounted into the case might be more pleasing to the eye than the striker plate, and easier too.
(just going through my brad point bits I don't have a 11mm but to do a two stepped hole , have a 12mm which I need)
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11th April 2009, 03:11 PM #4
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Decision made!! easy.
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11th April 2009, 03:14 PM #5
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Looks like I'm answering my own thread. Just needed to bounce ideas off somewhere, SWMBO wouldn't be much good for that, it'd be "
Originally Posted by Claw Hama
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11th April 2009, 03:35 PM #6
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I have the opposite problem, my partner is and Architect, she has the perfect answer for everything (at least she thinks so)
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11th April 2009, 07:13 PM #7
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11th April 2009, 07:17 PM #8
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I agree and have too but it's different when you live with one!!
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11th April 2009, 07:49 PM #9
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11th April 2009, 07:51 PM #10
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13th April 2009, 07:32 PM #11
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Since generally strikers go on fixed timber and latches on movable, that's what I'd do with a ball catch. I'd be worried about the loading on the screws in the door edge with the striker on the door.
We have several hinged timber window flyscreens with ball catches. I got brass two-ball catches in preference to single ball catches because they are adjustable for spring tension and all brass.
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