Screen Door Latch for kids!!

[Cleon]

I added a second lower latch to the screen door for our kids, nieces, nephews etc. the mod involved a second handle, coat hanger for now to test functionality, misc tools and 35 min of my time. the coat hanger joins the two latches together so either handle will allow the screen to be opened from ground level. Better for the young ones, than having to get up on the step, unlatch, step down to swing the screen open before going in.

[RPAspey]

I like it! that would also come in handy when my hands are full yet I want to get inside. I'll have to mull over this mod.

[Herk7769]

I bought a battery powered door bell with 2 buttons and put the "back door" button at the bottom of the steps. That way I know if it is a guest calling or one of the grand kids wanting in.

[SabreDoc]

Dood,
You need to patent this.
Seriously!
Doc

[dkb74]

Good idea!

[B47]

Great idea - and I know you said you are using a coat hangar to join the two together for now, might I suggest using a threaded rod of the appropriate lenght with a clevis at each end to join the two together.

You would simply have to drill a hole in each latch and secure each clevis with a bolt and a self locking nut.

[OldCoot]

Originally Posted by B47

Great idea - and I know you said you are using a coat hangar to join the two together for now, might I suggest using a threaded rod of the appropriate lenght with a clevis at each end to join the two together.

You would simply have to drill a hole in each latch and secure each clevis with a bolt and a self locking nut.

B, coat hangers are cheap and easily replaced.

[Wiscampsin]

Excellent idea Cleon!!!

[dkb74]

Originally Posted by B47

Great idea - and I know you said you are using a coat hangar to join the two together for now, might I suggest using a threaded rod of the appropriate lenght with a clevis at each end to join the two together.

You would simply have to drill a hole in each latch and secure each clevis with a bolt and a self locking nut.

Some of you are way too clever for your own good.

[B47]

Originally Posted by OldCoot

B, coat hangers are cheap and easily replaced.

True - they are cheap. But being a man of high standards and a reputation for doing things right ( at least according to Turbs) wouldn't you rather have a neat,clean and mechanically sound mechanism here on your RV?

You probably wouldn't have to replace a threaded rod and clevis ends as often as a coat rod.

I don't really care if he uses string or a coat rod - it is a good idea.

[SabreDoc]

What the hell's a clevis?
Sounds like a southern boy's middle name to me.

Doc

[OldCoot]

Originally Posted by B47

True - they are cheap. But being a man of high standards and a reputation for doing things right ( at least according to Turbs) wouldn't you rather have a neat,clean and mechanically sound mechanism here on your RV?

You probably wouldn't have to replace a threaded rod and clevis ends as often as a coat rod.

I don't really care if he uses string or a coat rod - it is a good idea.

Poking fun B, I would do as you suggested also.

Clevis is an attaching device that has 2 legs with a hole for a pin and the end opposite the legs is threaded. Not a southern thing, even the Yankees use them.

[B47]

Originally Posted by SabreDoc

What the hell's a clevis?
Sounds like a southern boy's middle name to me.

Doc

Can't show you a pic, maybe someone else can, but a clevis is a U shaped fitting that has a hole drilled thru the open end and is threaded on the other end end.

[B47]

Originally Posted by OldCoot

Poking fun B, I would do as you suggested also.

Clevis is an attaching device that has 2 legs with a hole for a pin and the end opposite the legs is threaded. Not a southern thing, even the Yankees use them.

Yeah "even the Yankees use them." We used them on the farm to attach the "O" shaped attachment of a farm implentiment ( plow, disk etc) to the drawbar of a tractor.

[SabreDoc]

Originally Posted by OldCoot

Clevis is an attaching device that has 2 legs with a hole for a pin and the end opposite the legs is threaded. Not a southern thing, even the Yankees use them.

Ya sure, except we call them a U-shaped attachimadoohickeythingy.
Clevis just sounds weird.

Doc

[B47]

Originally Posted by SabreDoc

Ya sure, except we call them a U-shaped attachimadoohickeythingy.
Clevis just sounds weird.

Doc

Funny but calling a clevis a "U-shaped attachimadoohickeythingy" sounds weird to me

[Herk7769]

Radio Control vehicles use threaded rod and clevis to make adjustable connections. Also called "pushrods."

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[B47]

Originally Posted by herk7769

Radio Control vehicles use threaded rod and clevis to make adjustable connections. Also called "pushrods."

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Lou - thanks, but I must take exception to you saying clevis are "Also called "pushrods."

Pushrods are the tubes that the clevis is attached to. The clevis is a component of a pushrod. They are, as you correctly say, adjustable.

[Herk7769]

Originally Posted by B47

Lou - thanks, but I must take exception to you saying clevis are "Also called "pushrods."

Pushrods are the tubes that the clevis is attached to. The clevis is a component of a pushrod. They are, as you correctly say, adjustable.

OK

[OldCoot]

Originally Posted by B47

Lou - thanks, but I must take exception to you saying clevis are "Also called "pushrods."

Pushrods are the tubes that the clevis is attached to. The clevis is a component of a pushrod. They are, as you correctly say, adjustable.

And naturally I have to take exception, pushrods are hollow tubes that sit on lifters and rest in sockets on rocker arms in engines to operate the valves.