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Evening all
I'd like to make some cupboard handles out of copper pipe, similar to [url= https://ibb.co/fs1nDb ]THESE[/url] but can't quite figure out how I would attach them to the doors?
With a traditional knob ( 😯 ) there is a screw coming through the door into the back of the handle or from the handle into a bolt or similar arrangement. The trouble I'm having is that there isn't anything to screw into in the end of the piece of pipe so I'm a bit stumped as to how to go about it.
Any thoughts chaps and chapettes?
Piece of dowel, pushed into the end. It will need to be a good tight fit.
Fill with epoxy, then stuff dowel of sinilar size in, saw flush with end of pipe. Screw into that.
Are you going to do that with soldered pipes?
Ah ha, epoxy maybe a bit more straightforward then dowel. I knew there would be a simple solution out there.
So next daft question as someone who knows nothing about these sorts of thing; what epoxy resin 😳
Good point Johnny, I hadn't really thought of that. Very much in the brain storming stage atm
Are they all soldered or can you get ones that either push or glue together?
Who's johnny? 😆
Well a presoldered set i think would look rubbish because of the raised bit that contains thesolder
But if you can get bits to sweat it might look okay once polished you'd have a silver ring on each side.
But you could just glue them if you're already mucking about with epoxy anyway.
Who's johnny?
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A piece of dowel in the vertical bit wouldn't need to be a tight fit; put a screw in from the back of the door and it'll tighten up and clamp everything in place. No faffing about with epoxy then.
They will lose the shiny colour and go a dull brownish chipper
Copper, and green in time. You could lacquer them, but it'll wear off the frequently used knobs. So be prepared for frequent brasso.
The dowel needs to be fairly tight otherwise the screw will just rotate it, not screw into it. Once in place it will stay there because of the expansion of the dowel due to the screw.
what epoxy resin
Just use any poxy resin... Sorry autocorrect, meant to say any epoxy resin