Attaching cooker guard to counter

rovoagho

I've one of the cooker guards below attached to the counter using the sticky tape it came with. BabyDan are sending replacement sticky tape - it's more a clear rubber than tape - so I can clean it, but I'm trying to figure out a more mechanical way of making it detachable.

I can't use screws, because the counter will give in after a few removals, and bolting through isn't an option because one side is over the join of two carcasses. Is there some kind of threaded receiver I could drop into a hole, that will lock itself into place somehow?

BTW, the tape goes either side, on the (detachable) pieces you can see on the left with the two bolts. These are held to the main part using butterfly nuts.

jimf

rovoagho wrote: »

I've one of the cooker guards below attached to the counter using the sticky tape it came with. BabyDan are sending replacement sticky tape - it's more a clear rubber than tape - so I can clean it, but I'm trying to figure out a more mechanical way of making it detachable.

I can't use screws, because the counter will give in after a few removals, and bolting through isn't an option because one side is over the join of two carcasses. Is there some kind of threaded receiver I could drop into a hole, that will lock itself into place somehow?

BTW, the tape goes either side, on the (detachable) pieces you can see on the left with the two bolts. These are held to the main part using butterfly nuts.

You can get an adhesive Velcro tape made by 3m good tac if you contact them in Dublin they may have a sample for you to try

Dubl07

Use a playpen and baby-gates? Free-range toddlers have no place in the kitchen.

rovoagho

Velcro won't stand up to the rigours of the kitchen. It'll also get filthy.

jimf

rovoagho wrote: »

Velcro won't stand up to the rigours of the kitchen. It'll also get filthy.

Its not actually Velcro as we know it its an interlock product sorry if my most was misleading its quite a robust nylon

jimf

Any way of fitting suction cups the lever release type

rovoagho

Nah, it'd really need to be bolted or glued down, and I'd just be going down the same route again with glue. Hence the request for a mechanical solution.

The Red Ace

what type of hob are you and you using, gas or electric, if electric and you are a competent diy er making up two L shaped brackets that could slide in underneath the hob in a position adjacent to the fixing hole in the guard and attached correctly to the hob base without drilling through wires etc shouldn't be impossible

rovoagho

I'd be wary of anything metal contacting directly to the hob, it's an induction jobby and it gets very hot underneath.

BabyDan actually sent me some tape when I asked them, which I'm going to use for now, but in the meantime I remembered this bolt chart in my bookmarks, and hanger bolts would be perfect for this job. Next time it gets so gross I can't look at it any more, I'll be sourcing some of these.