SueJean
Active Member
I was thinking about starting a thread about interesting problems/dilemmas that have happened to people while traveling. I'm sure this problem falls into some category called "Weird problems". The solution that I'm looking at is to replace all of the cabinet knobs with single piece knobs instead of the two part thingies we have now, but let me tell you what actually happened due to the knobs on our cabinet doors.
We first became aware of the annoying habit some of our knobs have of coming apart in our hands when we're trying to open a stubborn cabinet door. We have two critical knobs in particular that we have to be mindful of in the kitchen and living room area. The knobs have a stem that attaches to the cabinet door and then a cover/cap that makes them beautiful. Their connection seems to be little more than a "squeeze play" between them. The majority of our knobs are stable and never come apart.
However, one knob on the one of the two large mirrored doors over the power stuff always comes off in our hands unless we're careful to grab it as close to the stem as possible. We've learned to open that door by opening the left door and using the edge of the right door to pull it open. Adaptation is good.
The other knobs that come apart are on the bookshelves over the back window. There are two that come apart regularly as DannyLee has had to deal with the books constantly falling off of the shelves during our US tour. (We're trying to work out a seatbelt solution for this problem. No success so far. Easier to get rid of books! )
One of them got tossed into a drawer never to be seen again one day. The other was waiting for just the right moment to become a major problem. We think this happened somewhere near Rawlings, WY. It was not a good day for us. We had pulled into a park and were in the process of setting up.
Now we've learned about the sneakiness of sliders that like to mash bananas beyond recognition and we've had books that have fallen and gotten into the slider's path so we now know to check all such things before opening or closing sliders. We thought we knew all about such things, but this one caught us totally by surprise.
As I was opening the slider on the left side, I heard a strange crunch. I immediately stopped and started a thorough investigation to determine what had gone wrong. I couldn't see a thing wrong and nothing seemed out of place. We tried a little more movement - more crunching. We tried grumbling and growling at each other for a bit as to what was wrong, but nothing was evident.
Finally, with the help of a flashlight and by mashing my face into the carpet, I was able to see that one of the stupid knob caps had managed to get into the slide pathway and was jammed there. We were clueless in that moment as to what to do with this situation. We had one slider out, one half out and one starting to go out and.............
In the end, by using an off-set wrench and a long screwdriver, DannyLee managed to pop the thing out and nothing, not even the knob cap was damaged and DannyLee had saved the day. We added counting cabinet knobs to our checklist of "things to do before moving sliders". Hmm......
We first became aware of the annoying habit some of our knobs have of coming apart in our hands when we're trying to open a stubborn cabinet door. We have two critical knobs in particular that we have to be mindful of in the kitchen and living room area. The knobs have a stem that attaches to the cabinet door and then a cover/cap that makes them beautiful. Their connection seems to be little more than a "squeeze play" between them. The majority of our knobs are stable and never come apart.
However, one knob on the one of the two large mirrored doors over the power stuff always comes off in our hands unless we're careful to grab it as close to the stem as possible. We've learned to open that door by opening the left door and using the edge of the right door to pull it open. Adaptation is good.
The other knobs that come apart are on the bookshelves over the back window. There are two that come apart regularly as DannyLee has had to deal with the books constantly falling off of the shelves during our US tour. (We're trying to work out a seatbelt solution for this problem. No success so far. Easier to get rid of books! )
One of them got tossed into a drawer never to be seen again one day. The other was waiting for just the right moment to become a major problem. We think this happened somewhere near Rawlings, WY. It was not a good day for us. We had pulled into a park and were in the process of setting up.
Now we've learned about the sneakiness of sliders that like to mash bananas beyond recognition and we've had books that have fallen and gotten into the slider's path so we now know to check all such things before opening or closing sliders. We thought we knew all about such things, but this one caught us totally by surprise.
As I was opening the slider on the left side, I heard a strange crunch. I immediately stopped and started a thorough investigation to determine what had gone wrong. I couldn't see a thing wrong and nothing seemed out of place. We tried a little more movement - more crunching. We tried grumbling and growling at each other for a bit as to what was wrong, but nothing was evident.
Finally, with the help of a flashlight and by mashing my face into the carpet, I was able to see that one of the stupid knob caps had managed to get into the slide pathway and was jammed there. We were clueless in that moment as to what to do with this situation. We had one slider out, one half out and one starting to go out and.............
In the end, by using an off-set wrench and a long screwdriver, DannyLee managed to pop the thing out and nothing, not even the knob cap was damaged and DannyLee had saved the day. We added counting cabinet knobs to our checklist of "things to do before moving sliders". Hmm......