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Greetings to all.
Having decided to make some wooden boxes for some of my machining cutters, I realized I would need hinges and
hasps for the boxes as well. Being on the cheap side, I fabricated my own hinges as well as some hasps. I may have
to buy some brass wood screws so looking for a good source for them. Temporarily I used some small brads to put the
boxes together. The hasps are the most difficult part of this project and used an 1/8 inch end mill to carefully cut out the "H"
pattern needed for the base of the hasps. All in all it isn't hard to do but somewhat time consuming to make the hardware
for the boxes. This is the roughed out hasp base. The tabs get bent up 90 degrees and holes drilled in the tabs to mount the latch assembly.
This is what the hasp assembly looks like when completed. There is a flat spring under the latch help keep the latch in
place when the box is closed. I used some flat material to make the hinges along with some small lengths of gas welding rod for pins.
Here is the contents of one of the boxes.
Having decided to make some wooden boxes for some of my machining cutters, I realized I would need hinges and
hasps for the boxes as well. Being on the cheap side, I fabricated my own hinges as well as some hasps. I may have
to buy some brass wood screws so looking for a good source for them. Temporarily I used some small brads to put the
boxes together. The hasps are the most difficult part of this project and used an 1/8 inch end mill to carefully cut out the "H"
pattern needed for the base of the hasps. All in all it isn't hard to do but somewhat time consuming to make the hardware
for the boxes. This is the roughed out hasp base. The tabs get bent up 90 degrees and holes drilled in the tabs to mount the latch assembly.
This is what the hasp assembly looks like when completed. There is a flat spring under the latch help keep the latch in
place when the box is closed. I used some flat material to make the hinges along with some small lengths of gas welding rod for pins.
Here is the contents of one of the boxes.