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New euro-style cabinet hinges have soft-close feature built in

July 17th, 2009 in blogs     
patrick_mccombe Patrick McCombe, contributor
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Despite its ordinary appearance, Blums CLIP top Blumotion cabinet hinge has a soft-close mechanism tucked inside the cup. The hinge works with all current Blumotion mounting plates.
This illustration shows the soft close mechanism. The maker says the soft-close feature can be deactivated for especially light doors.
Despite its ordinary appearance, Blums CLIP top Blumotion cabinet hinge has a soft-close mechanism tucked inside the cup. The hinge works with all current Blumotion mounting plates.

Despite its ordinary appearance, Blum's CLIP top Blumotion cabinet hinge has a soft-close mechanism tucked inside the cup. The hinge works with all current Blumotion mounting plates.
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The newest cabinet hinge from Blum is compatible with all existing CLIP style mounting plates, but it has a soft-close mechanism tucked inside the hinge cup. The manufacturer claims the CLIP top Blumotion hinge is the first of its type and it can be used with thicker doors than other soft-close hardware.

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hardwearguy writes: Austrian over German anyday? Better value? Sorry my friend, you are poorly informed. You obviously have very little knowledge of this industry. Do a little research... Posted: 2:36 am on October 20th
woodhard writes: I'll take Austrian over German Anyday! Better Value! Posted: 1:23 pm on September 10th
hardwearguy writes: Yet again, Blum is following in the footsteps of it's German cousin Hettich. The Blum hinge is not the first to have a soft close mechanism in either a hinge or in the cup. Salice released a soft close hinge with the mechanism in the cup a couple years back but rushed it to market and it was found wanting. In 2008, Hettich released a soft close hinge with the mechanism in the arm (and took the time to work out the bugs and patents) which has been a critical and design success. It is a more logical design as it can be used with all existing cup depths (unlike the in-cup design which requires you to drill deeper, typically up to 15mm vs the usual 12mm which eliminates the ability to use many frame and panel doors)as well as in any thickness of door and in all hinge types (110', 170' blind corner, lazy susan, wall corner and aluminum frame with glass panel). Check out the real pioneer in European hardware, Hettich. Posted: 2:53 am on July 19th
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