<html> At 10:57 AM 10/3/2005 -0400, Eric wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>We have a couple here with the brass plate adaptation. The folding part already has a brass tube in it for the pin to rotate inside. When the desk is punched, the whole end explodes&something has to give since there is a lot of leverage there. </blockquote> What I advise private customers is to support the desk from the back by sliding a book or something between it and the lid, in the middle. I suppose (being techs and all that ...) that we could glue a big block of hammer felt to the case (or screw on a block of wood from inside the case?) to support the flap; then we could watch it disappear or be busted etc. later on ... Susan </html>