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| Above, a safety catch I installed in my overhead cabinets. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Some years back, I was with a girlfriend who had a two-year-old. The dinette to my motorhome has an attachment for child safety seats. But it was directly under some overhead cabinets.
I got some child safety catches for those cabinets so that he wouldn't get beaned by stuff flying out of the cabinets on a rough road. I was going to put those in anyway as some items are made of glass.
That is the topic of an article in Do It Yourself RV.
They begin it with:
Traveling on back roads or less maintained routes can often cause significant jostling to an RV. It’s not uncommon for drawers to come loose under these conditions, spilling their contents or, in worse cases, causing damage to the drawer slides. While some newer RV models are equipped with locking drawer slides and hinges to prevent such mishaps, these mechanisms aren’t always foolproof. In older RVs, there might be no safeguards at all against drawers and cabinets swinging open. A surprisingly simple and effective solution is to use child safety locks.
These locks are an affordable and efficient way to secure drawers and cabinets, preventing them from opening during transit. Implementing this method is especially useful in RVs that lack built-in locking mechanisms. It’s a practical approach to “child-proofing” the RV – a strategy that’s beneficial regardless of whether there are actual children onboard.
To read more, go here.
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