How to make simple but reliable window latches

For modern window accessories you have to pay a decent amount of money and it’s not a fact that they will suit you. But you can make them yourself from inexpensive and accessible materials. Homemade products, distinguished by their reliability and durability, are quite simply designed, so any adult can make them.

Will need

Materials:

round steel rod or rod;
steel strip;
screws or screws;
pin with a round head.

Tools: vice, bending device, hacksaw, grinder, drilling machine, welding, grinder, drill, etc.

The process of manufacturing window latches and window sash opening limiters

We fix the bending device in a vice and bend the end of the round rod, previously bent at 90 degrees, almost until this end comes into contact with the flat part of the rod.

At the free end of the rod, from above in relation to the bent end, we make a small wedge flat with an outward slope.

We bend the second end of the rod in the same direction as the first.Using a vice and a circle of suitable diameter, we tap the end of the rod with the flat to the linear part of the rod at 90 degrees.

We drill a system of transverse and longitudinal holes in the steel plate.

We make brackets from a round rod, cut them off and install them with their legs to the depth of the vertical holes of the plate, tapping them lightly with a hammer.

We turn the plate with the staples over and weld the legs to the plate.

We cut off the brackets with part of the plate, process the edges and round the corners.

We insert the bracket into the smaller loop of the latch and squeeze it in a vice so that the connection becomes permanent.

We fasten the bracket with screws to the frame of the window sash so that it takes a horizontal position. At the level of the bracket, we drive a pin with a round head into the window frame post.

We press the latch from above to the pin until it rests on the pin, and the flat on the large loop is pressed, springing, against the side surface of the pin.

At the same time we will make a window sash opening limiter. Closer to the awnings, to the lower cross member of the sash frame, we screw a bracket onto which the limiter itself, made of a round rod with a free end bent down, is loosely attached.

When the window is closed, the stop rests on a pin driven into the sash frame. The second part of the clamp - a steel strip with longitudinal holes in the center, is secured with screws on top of the lower cross member of the frame.

We drill blind recesses under the holes in the strip to accommodate the bent end of the limiter.

We blow off the shavings, and our sash clamp is ready for use. We open the sash and, depending on the degree of its deflection, install the “nose” of the limiter in the corresponding hole in the bar.