Latch for Box Lid

" Trailer Latch "! 🤦‍♂️ If ye knew how long I've spent, dreaming up new and wondrous terms for things that hold things shut, on amazon!

Actually, I came up with the next best thing. They're on another coop, and working passably. But, god, they're '*cheap*'. Those are twice the price and look like they were at least made outside of a cave! 👍️ (Might well grab some, just to have to hand!) Thanks!

Sadly, I don't think even they'll do here. Having slept on it; I really wonder if this isn't 'Stiguras Last Corner' I've painted myself into. Nothing ~ as a Top ~ for Anything to attach to, is there?

Whoops!

As to 10-10-20, mate; There is nowhere, is there? Look it. Tin 😕

See, ye Toggle ~ which I have on the chick brooder / cage ~ is to stop a surface (vertical) falling Out. Yeah? So, theoretically, it can stop an equal surface lifting Up. Yeah? ….. So, where's that screw going? 👊

And, that's it, see? Stigura ~ by some unfathomable stretch of that elastic imagination ~ has finally managed to screw Himself!

Unless we can somehow invent a device of simple, native cunning.

Put simply? I need to stop two bits of wood from going from 'side by side', to one rising. That's it. And, our starting point appears to be some 'Through Bolt' principle?

Here's my Other coop, lads. There's my original latch. See? Works. But, 10 10's look better.

Problem is, see, there's no, second piece of wood for this sort to hold too. See? I'd originally cut a length of wood into two, symmetrical, wedges. That gave me both fixing wood And a 'Run' on the tin roof. I'm trying desperately to save Weight. Thought a less heavily framed lid could help.

Damn, that's Close, @The Continental Op !

Just been down the stables, oiling the thing. (Staring at it. Racking my brain!) I've a mind to grab some of those latches, anyway. Just so nice. And, that fixing? Lends itself, doesn't it? Unfortunately; If ye go back to my photo? See how the ship lap comes up, like a fence? Well, the fixing needs that fence out the way. See? Won't fit. Not on This job.

Now, those bonnet bolts? (Always wondered what they were all about!) That's far more the sort of lines I was Hoping for. I use those spring clip things on my normal bolts, round here.But, as above, see? Compare the idea to my picture? The actual Bolt component is a permanent fixture. Think about that. Fixed through …..

No. But, that's much more the sort of concept I was looking for. Ye know, the sort of 'simple, once ye know how' sort of tricks they use, in the Amazon. To make bird traps 'n ting. Sneaky little triggers. Like that.

Not happening, is it, lads? 🙁 No shame. Decades, I've probably had a passing muse about this. I've never come up with it.

Oh well 🙂 What's a man to do? Just sent for a new Circular Saw! I'll just have to strip the whole top off, flat. That'll remove that entire Fence, round the top, yeah? Now we have a flat, square frame. 2x2. Plonk an equally flat framed lid On that? Latches have 2" up top and about 3" of sliced off ship lap below.

I Think that works? Hinges! Hell, yeah! Almost forgot! On This design, because we Have No Fence ~ to retain the lid. We have to add hinges, so then, the Latches hold it Down. That works. My other coop's done similarly.

Anyone want to talk chickens? All I seem to Do, these days, is mess around trying to make chicken things. They help keep me skint! 😁

Yeah. Was rummaging around with That one, last night, too. Work loose. Then, get tight. Wood reacting to RH.

Then, I thought of a steel tube, to counter the pressures of the wood? Of course, nothing will 'Hold' in a smooth tube.

So, we add a Thread. In fact, why not just smack a Screw through? Well, because I'm Not ~ realistically ~going to carry a screw driver and stand there, using it, time and again. People don't.

See what I mean? 😁It's an absolute stinker. I've wrangled with it much of my life. I reckon it needs one of these " Secret Box Puzzle " things. Know what I'm saying? I reckon the Japanese might have something. I don't! 😂

I've just sent for some 16mm magnets, with holed centres. They even have the little screws 😎

I've Never stopped ragging This one! 😁

Aha! You may well laugh, Now, Monseiur! I however, am feeling really quite smug! 😁 Today, sir, I actually Tested my scheme with the Magnets! And, would ye believe? I honestly reckon I've Cracked It! 😎

Yeah, sod it. I forget this Is the DIY board. And that's exactly what I've been talking about. I keep thinking I'm about to get smacked, for going off topic, talking about a chicken box which I'm DIYing. Heh.

Small though? About two foot square, the box. Yeah. Agreed. If I were talking RIR? I too would be wondering how ye'd ever squeeze more than two in there! 😂 Nah. MEG's. My mental little bantams. Very small. Very upright little birds. Live and breed in these set ups. I'm brooding four, as we speak ~ In a canary cage! 🤣