Krazy Glue / Super Glue maybe.

I meant what technique? Will either of those metal-mesh cut-outs you see in my pic suffice?

Do i first spread the glue on the hinge, and then try to stick on the mesh? (How to stick it on without my nitrile-glove remaining stuck there too? For example, with the Red sheet-metal, a bit of my glove remained stuck there and left a hole in my glove. I then scraped off the stuck bit.

Or do i first place the mesh and then let drops of glue descend onto the mesh? And somehow spread it without the spreading-applicator sticking to it? So what would you use as applicator?

P.S. Believe it or not, not just Ace didn't have a match for my hinge, but even when i asked a vintage hinge seller on Ebay, the distance from the screw hole to the corner-edge was different. We're talking 1950s vs. say 1970s.

Have you considered purchasing a replacement hinge, drilling new holes to install?

I was about 10 years old and my mother wanted soft close hinges. I used An ice pick and screw driver to install the hinges.

Why do you think the hole pattern has to match?

I cant imagine how wire mesh/screen will reinforce a broken hinge.

beesneeds thanks again & thanks for reminding me about the idea for plastic knife. BTW I wonder how durable my red jar-lid metal is. Maybe i'll see if i can find 2-part epoxy locally. Any specific JB-Welds (and similar others) i should look out for? That way i can phone and ask if they stock those specific produts.

I had actually used Loctite superglue to attach the jar-lid metal you see. For meshing the reverse side, what say you to Weldwood contact cement which i already have?

I would say this is starting to feel like a conversation we had a month ago.

Go to a salvage hardware shop and replace the cracked hinge with a matching one.

It may be too late, but have you considered using fiberglas and resin?

Or, bondo.

You have posted using epoxy and JB Weld.

If you are that attached to that hinge, find a metal worker who will repair it.

Mat i just now noted your previous post - and i too had stronger non-arthritic fingers when I was 10-years old long ago. Stronger/talented people truly don't understand the non-strengths of lesser-abled people, such as not being able to install a cabinet hinge. I do what i can, such as drilling out that jar lid, and that was hard. Look, why not call a spade a spade? Its really more the fault of all those fabricators long ago who never got their act together to standardize sizings for public convenience. Always producing so-called better mousetraps.

No metal worker or salvage shop i know of around here.

Meanwhile my wall cabinet door has held up this past month with 3-levels of masking tape. I had borrowed the wall-cabinet hinge for the base cabinet.

The wall cabinet door is narrower-thus-lighter and thus holding up with tape.

Any other opinions here re: JB Weld vs fiberglass vs resin vs bondo? Though i'd much prefer to know specific products, as there's even a bunch of JB-Welds.

Ace carries it: https://www.acehardware.com/departments/automotive-rv-and-marine/auto-tools-and-maintenance/automotive-adhesives/81387?qtyRequested=1&deliveryRequested=false

I see thanks - is there no all-in-one that works the trick rather than separate steel and separate hardener? It looks complicated.

Also: Which do you think is better for reverse-side:

Metal-mesh? Or jar-lid-sheet-metal?

Update: I just ordered the JB Weld twin-one-ounce via HomeDepot, supposed to arrive tomorrow between 6am-8pm. Shall see if it gets here. Its funny how on the one hand,HomeDepot states "outside delivery at most convenient spot outside your home", yet on the other hand, they enable instructions to the delivery personnel, wherein i typed "inside stormdoor"

From the standpoint of durability,cost, appearance and time spent a new hinge with different hole pattern wins on all fronts (I'm 80 with arthritis everywhere except my ears).

...Which is better for reverse-side:

Metal-mesh? Or jar-lid-sheet-metal?

Now, for the off-topic matter:

klem1 (sigh) there's other factors i mentioned, as stated above.

You & Mat for example, would probly sigh in exasperation at watching me take 10 trips to lug grocery bags into the house one in each hand, versus your 2 trips consisting of bags on each finger. Yet the former is way easier for me even if the latter [might be] easier for both of you. That's because of my self-preservation instinct to preserve whatever physical functionality remains to me.

It's a bad idea to ignore the plea's sent to you by your own anatomy. Here's two examples:

1. I read of a woman who became blind due to a burst vessel caused by lugging heavy cartons into her home.
2. I read of another woman who broke a tiny bone within her ear by dint of shifting in her drivers seat to adjust her seat belt. It took forever till she found a doctor in Boston who correctly diagnosed her and fixed that tiny bone so that she nomore heard constant annoying clicks in her ear.

BTW, how big is your build? How many years experience have you had w/carpentry during your youth? When i was maybe in my 40s a woman in her 80s or 90s had such a strong grip, that she practically crushed my fingers. So who was the true geriatric, and who was the true spring chicken? People are always saying this one or that one is "amazing" without taking into account their internal physical capacity. You can fool humans but you can't fool quantum physics. I read a story about a boy who was shamed for not giving up his seat on the bus for the elderly (or some such). That's until he got up to leave, and they all then saw his physical leg disability.

jally if you want to discuss replacing cabinet hinges we will try to accommodate but you have gone so far off course no one knows where you are headed. State the REAL problem and we can go from there.

jally, I am confidant that if you can come up with what you have so far to repair the hinge, you absolutely can stir together a couple dabs of epoxy till it's well mixed.

beesneeds, did you see the question i asked in the above 2 posts about jar-lid-sheet-metal VS mesh (which were interspersed by another guy?)

Since the JB-Weld arrived today, I would ask more about that, except i'm afraid it will again distract from the sheet-vs-mesh question.

Yes, I saw the question. But I already gave my opinion on how to treat the reverse side in my first post.

I know that, but at the time i hadn't yet entertained the thought of cutting yet another piece of metal with my drill (which is tedious, as you can see from all those drill marks on the wood slab.

Anyway, your advice was very helpful. Thanks!

Ok. I would still just do a thin smear of the JB, and not keep gluing more stuff to the hinge. Also, in the future, a pair of tin snips or a hacksaw with a blade meant for cutting metal can be easier and yield a cleaner finished piece than using a drill to cut a bit of metal lid out.

I see, though i already did it with the mesh. I thinly smeared the reverse side, then pressed on the mesh, then added another thin smearing over-and-thru the mesh.

I hope to add a photo soon.

OK here's the pic (still awaiting total curing). BTW, I'd enjoy seeing an animated demo of someone using either a tin-snips or hacksaw to cut a piece out of a jar lid. Keyword search yielded zilch.

Like sand through the hour glass, so gos the days of our life.

Speak of apples and oranges and the price of tea in china. Methinks klem may have better stuff to do than non-sequitur his way thru life.

This is the wall-cabinet door (inner side), from which i'd borrowed a hinge to put on the base cabinet. This door is much narrower than the base cabinet door.

Maybe try searching for video without the metal lid part of the question. But really, using tin snips is like using scissors- you cut along the line you want to cut. Tin snips are like scissors, but for metal. If you know how to saw a piece of wood, using a hack saw on metal is similar. You are just sawing a piece of metal instead of wood. You might still like to drill some pin-holes along your cutting or saw line to help guide you, but it isn't strictly necessary.

I see, though i'm one who learns best by viewing vids. I actually used a huge heavy-duty vintage scissors for trimming the jagged edges afterward. My dad used to use it.