Wanted: hinges

[Rick DeBruyn]

Looking for a few hinges and lock mechanism as found in the attached photo. These are needed for wood box reproductions. If you have some available or know where to find some please pm me. Thanks

[Jordan Baker]

I wonder if Lee Valley tools would have something. They seem to have a large selection of different hinges and locks for making wooden boxes and cabinets.

[Rick DeBruyn]

Thanks Jordan and Jim, for the hardware supply store idea, I didn’t see the exact copy but fairly close options at both www.mcmaster.com/#hinges/=17jxnfw and http://www.leevalley.com/en/Wood/pag...?cat=3&p=41241 . Perhaps could use these as an option if the search for originals don’t produce results. The lock is rather unique and did not see anything close to matching. So still in the hunt for the hinge and lock.

Here are a couple more photos of the box trying to reproduce.

[rob love]

Are 81mm mortar boxes really that hard to find?

Princess auto had the similar box for 105 rounds a while back......I think they may have had the same hinge hardware.

[Tim Bell]

These locks and hinges are the same as the ones on my modern 75mm Pack Howitzer blank ammo crate.

No idea where to get them from - but perhaps this info will assist your search.

Tim

[Tim Bell]

My first google search for "75mm wooden ammo box"... turned up this amongst others...

http://marshallsarsenal.com/products...crate-standard

Edit - also these hinges for sale on ebay...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wooden-Ammo-...-/201891467404

Someone somewhere therefore knows where to get the metal parts.

Tim

[charlie fitton]

ah....the number of these that I burned in the bad old days

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Rick DeBruyn

... www.mcmaster.com/#hinges/=17jxnfw ...

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As I recall these guys had someone do jail time for selling without proper paperwork. Five or six yrs ago I inquired about a ball detent locking pin for the M38A1 GPMG mount. The response was a curt encouragement of sex and travel, and never ask us again.