Kitchen Carousel Unit Mechanism Repair

[omniflow]

Hi,

I'm having some challenges with a corner unit in our kitchen. It's one of those where you push the doors in middle and then you can rotate the innards.

The problem is that part of the mechanism has snapped, on both doors. I've welded them both once already, and they've both snapped again.

Here's a picture of the entire door



and here's a close-up of the offending component. It's the one at the bottom of the door on both doors that's snapped. The welding here is pretty scrappy - I was out of patience by this time.



I've tried contacting the original manufacturer - that specific mechanism is discontinued. I've tried googling for the part - absolutely no luck whatsoever. Any ideas?

[singlecoil]

Replace the whole thing would seem the obvious but probably not the cheapest answer.

Have you looked into that as an option?

[ChrisnChris]

I guess it's dependent on how much time you're prepared to spend and how much fking about your patience will stand.

Question...........The broken part fits into the internal mechanism via the pins and the door is slid into place with the broken part locating within the rigid plastic of the part that's fixed to the door, is that how it works?

If you have metal working equipment and skills, I would have thought you might be able to knock up a piece of plate to the right dims, weld or tap and bolt the pins to it and away you go. It doesn't have to be pretty, just dimensionally accurate and functioning. Is the plate flat or does it have a profile?
Drill accurately positioned holes in the plate to the same size as the pins, this may help to retain their correct position when welding, I'm no metal worker!

Just a suggestion, might be complete bowlox

[ChrisnChris]

anonymous said:

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You're right about the failure point. The hole once held the steel that's been pressed out and is now at 90° probably a position locator for the plastic part of the fitting?

[omniflow]

ChrisnChris said:

You're right about the failure point. The hole once held the steel that's been pressed out and is now at 90° probably a position locator for the plastic part of the fitting?

That's exactly it. In theory I could add in more metal and fill in the hole.

I think I'll probably have another go at fixing it, but take a lot more care this time and add as much new metal as I can.

[ChrisnChris]

omniflow said:

That's exactly it. In theory I could add in more metal and fill in the hole.

I think I'll probably have another go at fixing it, but take a lot more care this time and add as much new metal as I can.

No chance of a remake? Is that pressed out bracket/locator absolutely necessary?