you might see what rubber bumpers there might be at your hardware store. A 
slamming lid, unless you've comp'd for that, is a loud unnessary noise.
They may make some really tiny rubber ots.


On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Keith Patterson wrote:

> Putting a thirty inch piano hinge on a toy box lid I am completing for the
> niece for Christmas.
> If I put the hinge flat on the back of the box and the back edge of the lid,
> (easiest) the hinge is exposed, on the back of the box of course.
> If I hide the hinge, fold it in half, putting it on the top edge of the back
> of the box, and under the lid, (hardest) the lid doesn't lay flat any
> longer.
> OK, it is only a sixteenth of an inch, but I did try hard to make the lid to
> lay flush and flat.
> I could remove a sixteenth of an inch off the top edge of the back, I
> suppose, but don't really want to go there.
> So, is one way correct and the other not, or is it just a matter of
> preference?
>
>
> Keith Patterson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>

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