Nickel 165 Degree Soft Close Cabinet Hinge G-F901

The G-F901 165 Degree Soft Close Hinge In Six Photographed Positions

This listing is written from the six frames on this page, and what they show is a straight arm cabinet hinge in bright nickel built for a wide swing: an opened three quarter view of the whole hinge with the long body and the dark damper section in the middle of it, a low angle frame of the hinge at its fully open position which is the 165 degree position the supplier sheet designates, a folded front view with the slotted tail plates squared to the camera and the adjustment screws in their slots, a folded three quarter view of the same hinge, an opened view that also shows the small separate mounting plate placed beside the hinge with the damper rod at the tail of the body, and a tighter opened three quarter view of the hinge from the same side. The folder designates the model as the buffered, or soft close, 165 degree hinge, and the dark section in the body is the part that carries that designation, so this page says what the photographs show and is honest about what only a drawing or a sample can prove.

Two points are stated plainly rather than implied. First, the damper is readable as a part in the staged frames: the dark section in the middle of the body in the opened views and the damper rod at the tail in the opened view with the small plate, and that is the closing mechanism on a buffered hinge of this class, but what a photograph proves is the part being there, not the closing feeling, so the soft close behaviour is confirmed on a sample worked through its full swing before a production order is cut. Second, the 165 degree swing is the designation on the supplier sheet for this model and the low angle frame in this listing shows the hinge at that fully open position, while the door load, the door thickness range and the cycle count are not numbers a photograph can give, so the specification table carries them as drawing figures rather than as anything the frames measure.

The Wide Open Position, Photographed

A 165 degree hinge earns its designation in one frame, and the low angle side view is that frame: the hinge at its fully open position with the door plate swung wide out from the case plate, the angle between the two plates visibly far beyond the 90 degree position a standard hinge stops at. That is the position a corner cabinet door, a lazy susan door and a wide appliance garage door actually need, because a door on a standard hinge slams into the case or into the worktop before the cabinet is fully reachable. The hinge in this listing is the buffered member of the wide swing class, so the door arrives at that open position under the damper as often as it leaves it, and the low angle frame shows the geometry without any drawing needed: the two plates, the arm between them, and the angle the door gets.

The opened three quarter views show the same hinge at the working angle rather than the extreme, because that is the angle a fitter and a buyer see when the door hangs, and the damper section in the middle of the body is the part that runs through every one of those swings. The fully open frame is the designation made visible, and the working angle frames are the hinge a door actually lives on.

The Long Straight Arm The Frames Show

The body of this hinge is a long straight arm rather than a cup and a short bracket, and the straight arm is the shape that carries a 165 degree swing: the arm has to span from the door plate to the case plate across an angle that a cup hinge cannot reach, and the frames show the span in the opened views, the body running the length of the hinge with the damper section seated in the middle of it. The straight arm form keeps the hinge line low and flat on the board, which is why the wide swing class of hinge is a straight arm class rather than a cup class, and it is why a buyer specifying the wide opening for a corner cabinet is specifying the arm shape as well as the angle.

Because the hinge stays visible when the door is open wide, the nickel surface across the arm and the plates is part of the furniture line, not just the function, and the opened three quarter views are the frames to judge the finish from, because they put the arm faces, the plate faces and the joint at a scale where handling marks and plating show, which is the scale a buyer inspects on the sample.

The Damper The Photographs Can See

A soft close hinge of this class carries its closing mechanism in the body, and the opened views show it directly: the dark section in the middle of the long arm, the part that takes the door's energy in the last degrees of the swing so the door comes to rest instead of striking the case. The opened view with the small mounting plate beside the hinge shows the damper a second way, as the rod at the tail of the body, and the folded views show the body folded back over the plates with the damper running the length of the fold. The photographs put the part in view rather than hiding it, which is the difference between a damper that is printed on a catalogue page and one that is in the hinge you are looking at, and it is the part a buyer is actually purchasing when they specify the soft close on a 165 degree hinge.

What the photographs do not prove is the closing feel. A hinge can carry the damper and still close hard if the case is built wrong, the door is heavy for the hinge, or the hinge is fixed crooked, so the soft close behaviour is confirmed two ways before an order: the designation states the closing class, and the sample is worked through its full swing in the buyer's own board, where the last degrees of the swing are what a buyer actually buys. The damper is visible in the frames; the closing is something the sample proves.

The Slotted Tail Plates And The Adjustment Screws

The folded front view squares the tail of the hinge to the camera, and that is where the adjustment lives: the slotted double tail plate with its fixing holes, and the adjustment screws in their slots. The slot is not decoration. It is the part that takes the screws and lets the door position be trimmed in the field, and a wide swing hinge only earns its angle if the door can be set true at the screw after fitting rather than fixed at the plate, which is the thing the folded front view shows at a scale a buyer can use. A fitter chasing a door line on a corner cabinet will live in that slot for the first minutes of the job, and a hinge of this kind is judged by what the slot feels like under the screwdriver: smooth, no catching at the ends, the plate holding square while the door is set. A hinge whose slot binds is a hinge that will be adjusted, re adjusted and eventually abandoned, and the folded front frame is where that quality shows up before the first carton is cut.

The Small Mounting Plate The Frames Show Beside It

One of the staged frames shows a small separate mounting plate placed beside the hinge, and that frame is worth a buyer's attention because the small plate is the part the hinge meets on the board in a wide swing fit: the hinge body carries the arm and the damper, and the small plate is the fixing face that carries the door or the case screws. The frames show the plate at a scale where its fixing holes and its folded fixing tabs are readable, and the drawing is what centres the plate and names the screw specification, because a wide swing hinge is only as true as the two fixing faces it runs between. If the small plate is the part a fitter fixes first, it is the part a buyer should see in the order rather than assume, and the frame in this listing is where it is shown.

What The Frames In This Listing Prove

Every structural claim on this page can be pointed at in one of the six frames: the long straight arm in the opened three quarter views, the dark damper section in the middle of the body in the opened views and the damper rod at the tail in the opened view with the small plate, the fully open 165 degree position in the low angle side view, the slotted tail plates with their adjustment screws in the folded front view, the folded position of the hinge in the folded three quarter view, and the small separate mounting plate in the opened view it is shown beside. What no frame on this page proves is the door load, the door thickness range or the cycle count, so none of those figures is carried as a photograph fact. They come from the hinge drawing and the test report, and a figure borrowed from a similar hinge is the most expensive kind of typo in a workshop, so they are issued against this model rather than assumed.

The staged set also omits, on purpose, the remaining frames of this folder that repeat the same positions at slightly different angles, including five near repeat frames dropped at the selection stage: one near repeat of the folded front view, a pair of near repeats of the folded three quarter view, and near repeats of the two opened three quarter views. What remains is six different views of the hinge, and each of the six is used once in the image gallery on this page.

How The Hinge Is Built

The opened three quarter view is the clearest way to read a hinge of this kind: the door plate at one end, the long straight arm body spanning to the case side, the slotted tail plates where the fixing and the adjustment live, the joint where the arm pivots, and the dark damper section seated in the middle of the body. Three things about this construction are worth a buyer knowing before the drawing arrives. First, the arm is a straight span rather than a cup and bracket, and the straight span is what carries the 165 degree swing across the board. Second, the damper sits in the body where the frames show it, so the closing runs through the hinge itself rather than through an add on piece clipped to the plate. Third, the slotted tail plates put the adjustment at the screw, so the door position is set after fitting rather than fixed at the plate, and that is the part a wide swing hinge needs most, because a wide swing door that is three millimetres out is a door that rubs the worktop.

• Long straight arm body in bright nickel, the span that carries the 165 degree swing.
• Dark damper section seated in the middle of the body, visible in the opened views.
• Slotted double tail plates with their fixing holes and the adjustment screws in the slots.
• Door plate with its fixing holes, shown at the working angle in the opened three quarter views.
• Small separate mounting plate, the fixing face the hinge runs between, shown beside the hinge in one frame.
• Fully open position shown in the low angle side view, the designation made visible.

The Fitting Sequence A Hinge Like This Runs In

A wide swing hinge goes on in a short fixed sequence, and the sequence is worth putting here because it is where a fitter loses the most time. The case side fixing of the hinge is set to the case edge first, the hinge body is mounted with the door open wide, and the door plate or the small mounting plate is then fixed to the door. The adjustment screws of the hinge are set through the slots until the door sits where the design wants it, the gap to the case even top to bottom, and the door checks against nothing through the wide swing. On a buffered hinge the last check is the close: the door pushed from the wide open position and left, the damped run through the last degrees of the swing, the door coming to rest against the case without a strike. A hinge fitted in that order takes minutes with the right screws in pilot holes the drawing specifies, and the same hinge fitted with the fixings reversed or the screws over driven spends the afternoon being chased by a fitter. The hinge is only as good as the sequence it is installed in, and the sequence is in this paragraph.

Where A 165 Degree Hinge Earns Its Keep

The wide swing class of hinge exists for doors a 90 degree hinge cannot serve, and the staged frames are the class, so the applications are the ones that need the angle. Corner cabinet doors and lazy susan doors are the classic case: the door has to open past the worktop line to give the cabinet access, and a standard hinge stops short of that line before the door is usable. Appliance garage doors, wide pantry doors and cabinet doors that swing out over a bench all sit in the same class, because the door needs the extra degrees of swing rather than more strength. A nickel finished soft close hinge of this kind is bought for those doors when the furniture wants the closing damped and the hinge line kept in the finish, and the low angle frame in this listing is the position those doors actually use.

It is the wrong call where the door only needs a standard swing, because the 165 degree hinge is a specialist in the wide position and a standard hinge is cheaper and shorter on a standard door, and it is the wrong call for a wet, hosed or coastal position: the finish is a decorative interior finish rather than a marine barrier, and for that work we quote a stainless hinge instead, even though it costs more per fitting, because a hinge that corrodes through in one season costs more than the hinge ever did.

Batch Consistency: Why One Hinge Runs Across A Whole Contract

A contract for a run of cabinet doors is where a wide swing hinge either earns the order or loses it, because the hinge works through a bigger angle on every door in the job, and a hinge that changes between batches is an angle that changes between doors. The consistency a buyer should hold the supplier to is the hinge itself: the arm profile batch to batch, the plate fixing centres on the drawing every time, the damper present in every hinge of the soft close run, the slot cut clean so the adjustment runs, and the nickel finish even across the cartons. The batch check section below is how the factory holds those points at packing, while the drawing is how the buyer holds them at receipt, because a hinge contract that names the drawing and the model number is a contract that can be checked, and a wide swing contract is the kind where the check matters most, since a door that swings 165 degrees shows a hinge that is wrong in a way a standard door hides.

How This Hinge Sits In Our Range

Within our own hinge range, a buyer choosing a wide swing hinge is usually choosing between the swing class, the closing and the plate, in that order. The swing class sets the angle the door gets, and this hinge is the 165 degree member of the range. The closing sets how the door comes to rest, and this hinge is the buffered, soft close member, the damper part you can see in the frames on this page, sitting beside the straight arm member of the range that is listed without the buffer under its own model number. The plate sets how the hinge meets the door and the case, and the slotted tail plates with their adjustment screws are the part the drawing centres. A buyer comparing the buffered and the plain wide swing members should compare them on the same three points, because the difference is the closing, and the closing is a thing a white background photograph shows only partly: the damper is in the hinge, and the sample is where the buyer feels it.

Specification Summary

How Each Hinge Batch Is Checked Before Packing

Every hinge batch is sampled on four points before packing. Assembly: the arm, the plates, the slotted tail section and the damper are checked to be present and seated, the joint is checked to sit square rather than cross loaded, and the adjustment screws are checked to run rather than bind in the slots. Appearance: the nickel surface is checked for passivation marks, handling scratches and any plating that has pulled at the joint radius, which is the part of the hinge that shows first on a wide swing door that stays open. Function: each sampled hinge is worked through its full swing by hand, opened wide and closed, so a binding joint or a closing that strikes instead of damping shows up before the carton closes, and the damper section is checked to run through the last degrees without a hard stop. Packing: carton quantity, inner bag, marking and the model number on the label are checked against the order rather than the previous job, and the documents a buyer needs at their own customs are issued with the proforma.

Who Supplies This Hinge

This hinge is supplied by Guangzhou Gorgeous Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., a furniture and architectural hardware business whose range covers hinges, drawer slides, handles, stays, legs, castors, locks and the fitting sets that go with them. The company works to export orders: quantities, carton marking, barcodes and shipping documents are agreed before production rather than after it, and a buyer who specifies the plate, the closing and the screw type on the order gets those things made, because that is the only specification the factory works from.

Terms Worth Agreeing Before Two Hinges Are Compared

• 165 degree hinge: a hinge whose swing runs to 165 degrees rather than the standard 90, the angle a corner cabinet or lazy susan door needs; the fully open position is shown in the low angle frame.
• Soft close hinge: a hinge whose closing is damped so the door comes to rest against the case instead of striking it; the dark damper section is visible in the body in the staged frames, and the closing behaviour is confirmed on the sample.
• Self closing hinge: a hinge whose mechanism pulls the door the last degrees of the way to the closed position; on this model the closing runs through the damper section in the body, and the designation is the buffered form of the wide swing line.
• Straight arm hinge: a hinge whose body is a long straight span between the door fixing and the case fixing rather than a cup and a short bracket; the straight arm is the shape that carries the wide swing.
• Wide opening hinge: the class name for hinges built for doors that must swing past the standard angle; the 165 degree position is the fully open end of that class.
• Slotted tail plate: the plate with the slot that takes the adjustment screw and lets the door position be trimmed after fitting.
• Damper section: the dark part seated in the middle of the body, the hardware the soft close designation is built on.
• Mounting plate: the small separate plate shown beside the hinge in the staged frame, the fixing face the hinge runs between on the board.
• Drawing: the document that turns a hinge photograph into a hinge specification; the plate centres, the door thickness range and the door load come from it, and we send it with the quotation.
• Family member: the plain straight arm wide swing hinge listed under its own model number, the same swing class without the buffer.

Common Hinge Faults And What They Actually Mean

A door that drops over time on a wide swing hinge is almost always a fixing problem rather than a hinge problem. The hinge is the strongest part of that joint; the board it is screwed into is not. In chipboard and MDF the holding power depends on the pilot hole and the screw gauge, and a plate that has been screwed and unscrewed repeatedly while a fitter chases the line loses grip, which shows up later as the plate pulling away from the door edge or the case while the hinge itself is still sound. A wide swing door makes the fault worse to see, because the door is longer in its travel than a standard door, and the answer is the fixing and the screw gauge, not a heavier hinge, and the drawing names the screw specification for the reason.

A door that will not square up is usually an adjustment question on a hinge of this class: the slotted tail plates set the door position, and a screw that is at the end of its travel means the hinge is being asked to correct a gap the case does not have, which is a case geometry problem wearing a hinge costume. The answer is checking the case edge against the drawing and the sample, not forcing the door or swapping the hinge for one nobody has specified. On a buffered hinge a closing that feels hard or uneven at the last degrees is an alignment or a door load question, and both are fixed at the bench with the sample door, which is why the sample comes first on a new case: the buyer feels the closing in their own board before the production order is cut.

The faults that actually do come from the hinge are the plates, the arm and the joint: a plate that was fixed crooked, an arm that was bent during fitting, and screws that were driven over the top instead of home. None of those is a hinge defect, but they all show up as one, and the way to keep a soft close 165 degree hinge working is the same as the way to keep any hinge working, which is to fix it true the first time with the right screws in the right holes.

Questions Buyers Ask About This Hinge

• Is this the same hinge as your plain straight arm wide swing model? It is the same swing class and the same straight arm shape, but this model is the buffered, soft close member: the dark damper section in the body is the difference, and it is visible in the staged frames. The plain member is listed under its own model number, and the two are compared on the closing, which is the only difference between them.
• Is the G-F901 a soft close hinge? Yes: the model designation marks it as the buffered, soft close, 165 degree hinge, and the dark damper section is visible in the middle of the body in the opened views and the damper rod is visible at the tail in the opened view with the small plate. The photograph proves the part is in the hinge; the closing feel is confirmed on a sample in your own board, and we will confirm it in writing before you order.
• What does the 165 degree position buy me? The door opens past the standard angle, to the fully open position shown in the low angle frame, which is what a corner cabinet door, a lazy susan door or a wide appliance garage door needs to clear the worktop and give the cabinet access. A standard 90 degree hinge stops short of that position before the door is usable, which is why the wide swing class exists.
• What are the plates made of, and how are they fixed? Stamped steel plates in the same bright nickel as the body, the slotted tail plates with their fixing holes and adjustment screws and the door plate with its fixing holes, shown in the staged frames. The small separate mounting plate shown beside the hinge is the fixing face the hinge runs between, and the hole centres come from the drawing, with the pilot hole and screw gauge part of the holding as much as the hinge is.
• How many do I need on a tall door? Two up to a modest door height, three above it, because the wide swing loads the fixings through a longer travel than a standard swing and the mid fixing is what keeps a tall door flat. The hinge count, the plate fixings and the screws are the three numbers a proforma for a hinge order should name.
• Are the fixing screws included? Fixing screws are not supplied as standard unless agreed on the order; the drawing lists the specification we would ship so the screws match the holes in the plates.
• Is it suitable for a wet or coastal cabinet? It is a bright nickel interior finish. For wet, hosed or coastal work we quote a stainless hinge instead, because plating always has pinholes at the joint radius where salt and chlorine start.

Sign-Off Checklist Before You Order This Hinge

• Door and case material confirmed as panel material the plates can fix to.
• Plate fixing centres confirmed against the drawing, with the pilot holes and screw gauge agreed before the cutting is done.
• Door height and mass confirmed against the hinge count, with an added hinge at mid height on tall doors.
• Soft close requirement confirmed in writing against the designation, and felt on a sample in the buyer's own board, since the closing behaviour is the point of buying the buffered hinge.
• 165 degree swing requirement confirmed against the door position the design needs, the wide open position shown in the low angle frame of this listing.
• Adjustment travel confirmed on the sample, the slotted tail plates worked through their travel so the door position can be set after fitting.
• Small mounting plate confirmed in the order as the fixing face the hinge runs between.
• Screw specification agreed separately, since fixings are not supplied as standard.
• Environment confirmed as dry or moderately humid; wet, hosed and coastal work is outside this finish.
• Sample worked through the full wide swing in the buyer's own board before the production order is cut, closing felt through the last degrees.

Ordering

Send the model number G-F901 with the quantity, the destination port and the carton marking you need. Samples are available before a production order so the hinge can be fixed and hung in your own board, the closing felt through the full wide swing and the adjustment set through its travel, which is the fastest way for both sides to agree that the plates seat, the damper runs and the soft close closing is right. The drawing, the fixing sheet and whatever test documentation we hold for this hinge model are issued on request, and delivery and payment terms are agreed order by order on the proforma rather than assumed from a previous order.