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<p>Created page with &#039;{{page/date}}<a href="/Category:Josh" title="Category:Josh">category:Josh</a>[category:Facebook]] ==Facebook== ===08:39=== Came down this morning to find that Josh had left the fridge door wide open. Closed it. Ten minutes la…&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{page/date}}[[category:Josh]][category:Facebook]]<br /> ==Facebook==<br /> ===08:39===<br /> Came down this morning to find that Josh had left the fridge door wide open. Closed it. Ten minutes later, I found it open again -- even though I was cooking stuff for him. We&#039;ve looked into fridge alarms (either light- or temperature-based*), but they&#039;re all ridiculously expensive for a circuit which I could make myself for $2, if I had the time to figure it out.<br /> <br /> &lt;nowiki&gt;*&lt;/nowiki&gt;I should have said light, temperature, or (what would be simplest) mechanical -- just a leaf switch or something.<br /> <br /> The minor problem is that it shouldn&#039;t go off right away; there should be a delay of maybe 10-30 seconds, so people can get into the fridge for normal stuff without being beeped at constantly. Just rigging a switch to a beeper I could probably do in a few minutes; it&#039;s the timer that&#039;s the tricky part.<br /> <br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Mel&#039;&#039;&#039; suggests a fridge lock<br /> <br /> Can you get one for an existing fridge? I thought those had to come with the unit.<br /> <br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Mollie&#039;&#039;&#039; suggests Gorilla Glue (which ends up not working for this problem, but does end up working quite well for replacing sewer clean-outs)<br /> <br /> I&#039;ve heard rumors of the manifold virtues of Gorilla Glue -- we may actually try that. Then we add yet another key to the kids&#039; keyrings (and ours). Meh.<br /> <br /> * &#039;&#039;&#039;Hilde&#039;&#039;&#039; suggests some kind of self-closing mechanism<br /> <br /> I thought of that... there are 2 options I can see: (1) spring-loaded hinge to push the door closed, (2) a spring without a hinge, pushing the door closed from the same location.<br /> <br /> The problem with #1 is that the axis of the new hinge needs to be in line with the axis of the door&#039;s existing hinges, and that axis is inside the door. #2 might work, but the problem is getting it to stay attached (not as much surface area for the glue). Maybe if someone made a push-spring with plates on both ends (or if there were some way to attach plates firmly to the spring), which could then be glued... I&#039;ll have a look next time we&#039;re at the hardware store, but I kind of doubt it.<br /> <br /> A cheap but ugly solution: attach a string just above the door and dangling down the front of the door, with a weight at the end. This will tend to pull the door closed. I might try that.</div>

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