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One reviewer on the Lowes website says turn buttons can be used with window screens:
"An inexpensive way to attach your Plexiglas storm sheet to a wood screen door. I've used them in the past to create access doors to plumbing by cutting our sections of cupboard walls adjacent to the plumbing. They are inexpensive, easy to install, and durable. According to my wife they lack esthetic appeal but they are great to use in low visibility locations. Hide them away inside cabinets or on the inside of your screen doors or window frames. (for home made removable screens or storm windows too) They are best painted to help them blend in with the background."
I've seen some turn buttons with only one wing which seems to be used on really old style house screens. Our house was built in the '50's so the screens are hung from some sort of screen hanger thing and held in at the bottom with a hook and eye. These hangers are good since the window can be swung outward while still hanging from the hangers. Handy for letting moths or geckos out of the house.
I saw the one wing types were available too. Those may work better for me, given the space I am working with, I'm not sure yet. The one wing ones might be more difficult for my arthritic fingers to manipulate.
I saw the one wing types were available too. Those may work better for me, given the space I am working with, I'm not sure yet. The one wing ones might be more difficult for my arthritic fingers to manipulate.
That's where pliers come in handy. I have a small plier that helps me turn knobs, and get's screw caps off of olive oil bottles and milk caps when they're attached to the plastic safety rings. It works great for opening pull top cans too. My fingers just don't have the strength they used to.
Thank you all but no those are not what I mean. See this little gadget on the picture frame? How you can slide it over to hold the back in place, or slide it aside to take the back off?
This is what I want. But the type that operates with a screw, to hold something in place, except when you want to release it.
I KNOW they make them, I've seen them but I can't think what they are called. They are kind of.....butterfly shaped but very narrow wings.
The single wing turn buttons are working perfectly. Thanks to all who replied.
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