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   Davo304 | Feb 17, 2004 08:11am | #1

   Mikey, They look very nice indeed.

   How are they attached? Piano hinges? What type of wheel casters? What type of pivot hardware?

   I'm interested in building something just like that for a client. I'm doing a basement remodel and instead of using bi-fold doors in one area, I was thinking of rotating bookcases. My biggest hurdle is that the basement floor slopes down and away.  Using bifolds, they will simply skirt in the same plane ...but to have something open outward, then the floor shoots down and away...it's not too big of a drop...a little less than 1/4 inch per foot, but a drop none the less.

   Any info you can share would be appreciated. If I go this route (bookcases) I will fit 2 into a RO space of 5ft wide, X 6ft tall X 14 to 16 inches deep. I'll be using 3/4 maple veneered plywood. As you can see, I have limited headroom in this particular space ( rest of basement is 7 ft tall) so bookcases would probably look better than a pair of "cut-down" doors anyway.

   Thanks

   Davo

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   mikeys | Feb 17, 2004 05:19pm | #2

   Floor sloping down is an advantage as they are supported by the pivots with no exposed hardware or wheels. The pivots are 3/8" althread built into cabinets. The bottom of the allthread has an acorn nut on it that rests in a tapered hole in a piece of metal hardware screwed to the floor. The top althread goes into a metal sleeve in the 3/4" oak plywood on the ceiling. The only adjustment is up and down by turning nuts with washers that are on the althread above and below solid oak blocks in the cabinets.Smile. It could be worse. You could be me working for you.

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   Davo304 | Feb 18, 2004 08:06am | #3

   Mikey,

   Thank you for the info...3/8 all thread used as a pivoting mechanism...I think I can do that.

   What type of stop /door catch mechanism did they use? I imagine something built into the header that the top of the cabinet bumps into such as a drawer catch ?

   Thanks again.

   Davo

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   mikeys | Feb 18, 2004 05:29pm | #4

   A block of oak on ceiling with magnetic catches. also chain to prevent opening too far.Smile. It could be worse. You could be me working for you.