Blum 110 Degrees Knock In Self Closing Compact 33 Hinge
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Blum 110 Degrees Knock In Self Closing Compact 33 Hinge
Customer Review: BLUM 110 HINGE FAILS
Summary: 3 Stars
The bathroom medicine cabinet door hinge recently started to make that snapping noise when I opened or closed the door. I lubricated the hinge assembly and adjusted the mounting screw but that did not help and this morning (2/10/07) when I was retrieving an item from the cabinet shelf, the door hinge that was making the noise failed and the door almost fell off. The door has a glass mirror. Fortunately, the bottom hinge saved the door from completely falling off. According to Amazon reviews, the the life of this pedigree of hinge is about 6 years and it's kind of prophetic because I bought the house about 6 years ago. Perhaps the previous owners installed the cabinets shortly after I bought the house. Anyway, I have to search for one only pair of hinges as they are used only in one place, in my master bathroom.
ECHOKILO in Duluth, Georgia.
Customer Review: Agreed - they fail often
Summary: 2 Stars
I have to agree with the other reviews. My kitchen was installed with these hinges and I've been replacing them quite often. I'd estimate I have about 80 of them and so far in the past 4 years since I bought my house, I've replaced about 25% of them (and here I am shopping for more replacements).
My advice... if you have these, buy them in bulk and have a few extra at all times because they will all eventually break and make that "snap" noise on open/close.
Is it worth re-drilling all your cabinet doors and buying something more sturdy? I don't plan to. The replacement cost and effort is still pretty low. The faceplates seem to hold up well so you're only replacing the odd hinge every few years at $2 bucks a pop. And when they're not broken, they do indeed work rather well. Replacing them is easy enough, fortunately.
Customer Review: Not a good hinge
Summary: 2 Stars
We've had our cabinet with Blum 33 hinges for only about 4 years, and a hinge just failed; the little plastic piece that maintains tension for closing the door broke. Using plastic for this purpose is not wise. Most people expect for the hinges to last for years and years, but this hinge doesn't pass the time test. The doors have not been used that much. It's not a real busy kitchen! Yes, it still works as a basic hinge, but the door won't stay closed and everyone bangs their head on it. Because I expect other hinges to also fail, I'm installing magnetic catches as a safety measure to prevent bruises on heads.
Someone suggested a 39 for replacement, and I think that's a good idea too.
Customer Review: Good for only about 10 years.
Summary: 1 Stars
I have these hinges in all my kitchen cabinets. They were new in 1993.
These hinges, in my opinion, have an engineering design flaw. Or maybe they were designed this way so you would have to buy new ones to replace the ones that fail.
Anyway after about 10 years, the plastic spring mechanism that keeps the cabinet door closed starts to fail and the doors do not stay closed. I do not know if the plasitc has a short life span or what but a piece of the plastic breaks off and causes the self closing mechanism to stop working.
My advice, look for something else.
Customer Review: Bum Blum Hinges
Summary: 1 Stars
Blum 110 Degrees Knock In Self Closing Compact 33 Hinge Do not buy this hinge! If you are replacing this defective product call Blum and get the all metal replacement. The plastic piece on the swing arm breaks and the hinge either will not stay open and/or makes a snapping sound. When you look inside the hinge mechanism and you can see the metal hinge pin then the plastic piece is broken off and this is the defect that all of these reviews are discussing.Good Luck