Anyone recognise this door catch?

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I need to replace a few of these. Anyone know who the manufacturer is or where I can get them?

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I can't improve on habebty's answer because he takes you right to them, but just in case you ever need to know the maker is Foresti & Suardi (Italy) and Timage are the first-line UK importer
 
Brilliant, many thanks to both of you. I have spent ages searching online for these things
 
RogerRat said:
Having changed my boat recently, I also have had real problems sorting bits like catches. The link supplied looks great.
Thanks chaps. :)

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Roger there are several manufacturers of this type of catch. If you're trying to match up some existing ones you might have to look around, beyond F+S. The other big maker is Sugatsune (whose catches I like best and specced on my current boat)
 
jfm said:
Roger there are several manufacturers of this type of catch. If you're trying to match up some existing ones you might have to look around, beyond F+S. The other big maker is Sugatsune (whose catches I like best and specced on my current boat)
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The F+S ones seem to be pretty carp to me. I had a few replaced when I bought the boat and now a couple more have gone in that the button doesn't activate the locking mechanism anymore. The push button action seems v coarse too.
 
Deleted User said:
The F+S ones seem to be pretty carp to me. I had a few replaced when I bought the boat and now a couple more have gone in that the button doesn't activate the locking mechanism anymore. The push button action seems v coarse too.
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That's why I very specifically ordered Sugatsune catches on Match 2 (with my "get everything right" detail detail approach to the build). They're much better than the F+S ones, which imho are a bit crummy. The Sugatsunes have a proper locking action so I never have doors flying open at sea, and they look/feel better quality, and are just all-round better (and more expensive, iirc £14 each but I might be wrong on that)

I doubt you can retrofit though, because the hole offsets etc are unlikely to be the same
 
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The F+S ones seem to be pretty carp to me.
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I'm not surprised to hear that, 'cause I've been at F&S factory, and while they build some quality components indeed, I suspect that this is not something that comes from there.
I mean, of course it's a F&S branded bit of kit, but afaik they don't even have the equipments normally necessary for that type of production, and my educated guess is that they only asked someone in the People Republic to put their logo on it.... :(
 
MapisM said:
I'm not surprised to hear that, 'cause I've been at F&S factory, and while they build some quality components indeed, I suspect that this is not something that comes from there.
I mean, of course it's a F&S branded bit of kit, but afaik they don't even have the equipments normally necessary for that type of production, and my educated guess is that they only asked someone in the People Republic to put their logo on it.... :(
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Yup agreed - it will be contract manufactered in the far East. I agree with you that the stuff F+S make or closely supervise themselves is top quality stuff in general
 
MapisM said:
I'm not surprised to hear that, 'cause I've been at F&S factory, and while they build some quality components indeed, I suspect that this is not something that comes from there.
I mean, of course it's a F&S branded bit of kit, but afaik they don't even have the equipments normally necessary for that type of production, and my educated guess is that they only asked someone in the People Republic to put their logo on it.... :(
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Mmm, well I'm surprised that a company that cared about it's image would do something like that without ensuring that the products that they allow another manufacturer to put their name on do not reach a certain quality standard. I'm also surprised that Ferretti would fit this stuff but then I'm not surprised either because by the time my present boat was built, the bean counters had taken over
 
'Dunno, M. These surely are not the components for which F&S hopes to be recognized from boaters as a quality supplier.
Besides, they are clearly targeted to builders, which as you say are more and more bean counters driven - and not only Ferretti, needless to say.
Anyway, coming to think of it, one should even wonder why they thought of including these bits in their products line, in the first place.
Again, my educated guess is that they simply saw a demand for them from the yards, found a supplier somewhere, and thought to make a crust out of them....
 
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