October 20, 2016 Eureka!

After a couple days of rural fairground camping we were ready for a full hook-up RV park not far from town.  We found a flaw in our dining bench drawer design, in that the locks weren’t strong enough to keep the drawers closed while we were on the road. We thought this might happen and devised a backup plan to replace the locks with magnets. Also when the drawers flew open items stored behind the drawers flew forward as well and then the drawers couldn’t close. I bear the blame for these calamities since I am the one weighting down the dinette with my culinary tools.

Our normal process for these repairs would be to visit the closest Home Depot or Lowe’s for parts, but not in Eureka. They’ve managed to keep the big box hardware guys outta town so we went to the local hardware/lumber store.  What a pleasant experience. Lumber staff cut the wood we needed to go in the back of the drawers to exact size and had the magnets we pictured as the cure to our self-opening drawers. You see where I’m going with this. The wood partitions did the trick holding back items from falling into the path of the drawers, but Denis says my heavy drawers would need so many magnets we wouldn’t be able pull them open. Now we just fold up area rugs and block the drawers from flying open.