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May 3, 2025
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all right guys welcome back to the live
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stream real quick I'm just going to make
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a uh this video should take no more than
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maybe 5 10 minutes uh we're going to go
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over the kitchen galy locking mechanism
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for the slam latches so I'm going to pan
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the camera down I just put it up here so
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you can see the orientation so we're
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actually inside the kitchen Galley right
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here um and we're going to focus on this
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slam latch that you can actually see so
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I didn't put this one in uh it was just
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laying on the desk so I got to put it in
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before I put the countertop on because
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it's going to be really it'll be
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possible to pretty much get to it after
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that so let me show you what I'm talking
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about all right I'm going to hop in the
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van and we're going to be talking about
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this is the slam
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latch then we have
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our
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um let me get the other piece here we
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got one more piece we got to grab
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so I'm showing you how to M Mount
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the
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Locking clasp or however you want to
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call it it's pretty much the part that
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the slam latch connects to or latches on
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to
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okay so what we have here
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is uh this is a piece of Baltic Birch uh
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about 1 in by 3 in and we have our latch
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attached to
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here uh well not not the latch but this
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is the part that it locks into so if you
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take apart and disassemble your slam
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latches first off the slam lat slam
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latch looks like this
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you open this
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up depresses this so it can actually
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lock
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into this piece so they call it a slam
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latch because when you slam it in there
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it jumps over this and then this is
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actually needs to be mounted to where it
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catches if you mount it offset like that
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then the drawer is going to Rattle so
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you want to make sure that when you
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adjust the these screws right here you
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do it in a way that this is going
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to firmly catch that latch when it
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slams so that's the first thing you got
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to get right and you have to get that
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right when you actually make the
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drawer so right here uh but what we're
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doing right now is the
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final part of this and we're
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taking this
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piece and we're just kind of coming
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under
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here and we're
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finding a low enough position to where
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that it doesn't interfere with the latch
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but it's low enough to where there's
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enough meat so that when we actually
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open the drawer and slam it that we have
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a nice uh positive
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closure so I feel it kind of rubbing
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just a little bit so I'm going to make
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an adjustment to the screws really quick
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okay coming back in the
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van all right so this is the one that
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actually already adjusted so let's take
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a look at
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it okay so that one you can see
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got a really
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good closure on
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it and so I'll just show you this one
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for example so this is the
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orientation so if we need to tighten
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this up uh we're going to move this
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forward
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and it's really good to use Baltic Birch
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because this is it's a very very
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hard
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uh piece of material and you need that
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hardness because if you're going to set
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these screws in here they need to really
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not move over
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time um so right
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there okay so that feels really good so
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we'll
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okay so now we don't have any
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Rattle and that adjustment that's what's
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going to either make your drawers rattle
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with the Marine slam latches or
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not I know my head's right in your
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way okay so once we get this into
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place and we know where um everything is
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going you can mark this um with a pencil
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so that when you take this off
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and we're going to put wood glue on it
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because we actually are going to do a
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final install really
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quick okay for this particular scenario
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we don't want to do this we actually
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want to evenly distribute
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the uh wood glue around
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here um because we need to make sure
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that this uh
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we've got good a good coating and this
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does not move at
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all and we're going to set the we're
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setting the
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height we can technically get back in
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here and tighten these up or adjust
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these later as time goes
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on but really what what you want to do
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is you want
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to this needs to be the final ins
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install so you want to get it as dialed
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in as you possibly
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can so we're making sure that we right
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in the middle and we're not too low not
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too
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high and right there so we're going to
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set it right
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there and then if you have wood glue
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push this really hard and then it kind
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of gives it like a suction and then you
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can fine tune
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uh where you want this to
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sit and then once you're happy where
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it's
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at we're going to get a clamp and then
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we're going to uh pin nail
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it with four pin
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nails now when you do this it's it is
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it's going to move it again so
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yeah this way you can
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really dial in the
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uh where you want this to
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be and we're using uh three 23
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gauge um this is 23 gauge
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think I switched over to one
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inch now this is a pro tip I'm putting a
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piece of wood behind
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here
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because every now and then this uh these
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pin nailers are
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they're very
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dangerous they say that they they've got
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a safety trigger but it's
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not
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uh what am I trying to
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say it's it's not 100% safe let's just
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say that from
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experience and the last thing I want is
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one of these pin nails to
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go past me and into the isotherm Cruise
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130
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so and we just need we just need four of
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these
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and that'll be enough
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to hold that in place until the wood
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glue
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cures um so we can go ahead
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and undo
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this wipe off our X excess
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glue and just in
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case we really messed up we can actually
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test our
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drawer and there's still time to pry it
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off if we needed to if we messed up that
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bad right now this thing is perfect so
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you can
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see I'm moving the
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drawer there's no
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rattle okay and so this is my tester
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piece so I'm going to keep this just for
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a future reference um this just lets me
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know how I have this set up with a/ in
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piece of piece of wood so I'll keep this
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on hand but pretty
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much all of the latches in this van are
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like this with the exception of the one
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underneath the fridge stack which had to
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be fabricated a different
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way but that is just a little
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quick overview
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of how to make this bracket I think
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there's a lot of people that this will
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help because this seems to
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be it's a nice the slim latches are nice
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but it's they're kind of quirky as far
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as how they get mounted so hopefully
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this helped out hope you guys enjoy this
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video make sure you get subscribed turn
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that notification Bell and I will see
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you guys in the next live stream
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