Question: What is the difference between the hinges with or without legs? Answer: Most models of the Tru-Close hinge are available with or without legs. Some can be purchased with just 1 leg or even adjustable legs. The key difference is a hinge without legs only gets screws into the face of the post and [...]
Question: Can I just add a Tru-Close hinge to my existing gate to make it close? Answer: The short answer is no. The reason you can not is the Tru-Close hinge will have a different pivot point than your current hinges. This will cause the hinges to bind and eventually break. Sometimes folks have an [...]
Question :: Can the Top Pull be mounted on the inside of an inward swinging, two part gate? My building code requires that the latch be on the pool side of the fence. Answer :: The short answer is yes, but does your building code really require this. While it is true that each individual [...]
Question :: Is there a way to buy just parts? the stainless threaded rod broke on my latch [ residential lokk-latch ] and now is to short, but otherwise the rest of the latch mechanism is fine. Answer :: We do offer repair / replacement parts on a number of our gate latches. Before we [...]
Question :: I have 2 Lokk Latch Pro locks but no key. Does your but key fit all or do I need to buy new lock cylinders? Answer :: Latches from D&D Technologies come in 2 different cylinders. The Magna Latch Top Pull, Vertical Pull and the Residential Lokk-Latch all use the same stamped key [...]
Question :: I am attaching a wood gate to a conventional chain link round fence post. Do you have a combination hinge? Answer :: Yes, and it will also work for a chain link round frame gate being attached to a square post. The Tru-Close line of hinges for round posts will work in this [...]
My father-in-law raised a squirrel named Nibbles. Once Nibbles was old enough my father in law released the squirrel into his back yard where he flourished for a few years feasting on nuts that were hand fed to him. Then Nibbles had a lady friend that came around and started ruling the roost. She even got to [...]