ᐅ Frustrated with a 153-degree hinge, how can I manage it?

Hello everyone,

we have a 220cm (87 inches) tall Metod cabinet.
At the top, there is a 60x80cm (24x31.5 inches) door with a 125-degree hinge. Then an open shelf, and below that a compartment with a 60x40cm (24x16 inches) folding door.
At the very bottom, I wanted to install a 60x80cm (24x31.5 inches) door with a 153-degree hinge, and behind that drawers.

The top door fits perfectly. The cabinet is standing straight as well.

For the bottom door, I had to place the hinge mounting holes a few millimeters lower because the folding hinge is 12mm (0.5 inches) thick; otherwise, they would have rubbed against each other.

I spent a long time adjusting the 153-degree hinge on the 60x80cm (24x31.5 inches) door (right-hand opening).
At first, the door had about a 5cm (2 inches) gap and wouldn’t close at all.
Now I managed to get it so the door at least rests against the cabinet frame at the top. However, I had to turn the lower hinge screws out quite a bit so the door would close somewhat, which caused the door to stand about 1cm (0.4 inches) away from the horizontal edge of the cabinet at the bottom.
So the door is slanting downward.
Of course, this looks quite bad.

How can I adjust it so the door with the 153-degree hinge closes completely and sits correctly both at the top and bottom?

What might I have done wrong?

Best regards,
buchi

Hello,
it should fit just as easily as the 125° hinge.

Did you drill new holes for the bottom door? Where exactly? In the cabinet carcass or in the door?

Hello!

For the lower door, I drilled new holes in the cabinet carcass.
(The old ones were plugged with wooden dowels and new ones drilled.)
I also tried hanging a 40cm x 40cm (16 inches x 16 inches) door using only one of the 153-degree hinges each time, testing it separately on the upper and lower hinge. The small door can then easily be adjusted to rest flush against the horizontal edge of the cabinet carcass.

Best regards,
buchi

I suspect the holes were not drilled completely accurately. Are the mounting plates exactly 700mm (28 inches) apart from each other? Are they perpendicular to the surface and the edge?

I made a drilling template out of aluminum with
two 5mm (0.2 inch) holes for the still existing original holes,
and then two 1.6mm (0.06 inch) holes 54mm (2.1 inches) deeper (to be 4mm (0.16 inch) deeper than the original holes).

Then I inserted two of the shelf support pins into the 5mm holes to fix the template,
threaded through the 1.6mm holes, and drilled the 5mm holes with a wood drill bit.

So the positioning should be accurate to within about 1mm (0.04 inch). I definitely wasn’t off by several millimeters.

But of course, the drilling was done freehand inside the upright cabinet.

What is the maximum allowed tolerance for inaccuracies?
There are still quite a few adjustment options on the hinge, right?

What is the most critical dimension here? Does the spacing really have to be exactly 700mm (27.6 inches)?

Regards,
buchi

The mounting plates can be adjusted up and down.
Any kind of torsion is definitely problematic, meaning if the holes are not exactly perpendicular to the surface or if the two holes are not precisely aligned along a line orthogonal to the edge.

Is the door straight?