A hinge in a corner unit in the kitchen of our 13-year-old new-build home ceased to work due, it seemed, to metal fatigue: the metal surrounding one of the screw anchor points sheered away. A friend who knew the proprietor of the original kitchen suppliers/fitters asked where a replacement hinge might be obtained. Answer: that hinge manufacturer isn't around any more. So next, a visit to our local hardware supplier, where we showed them the broken hinge. "Ah, no. They aren't made any more. Try this." So we bought a pair of the "fits-all-cupboards" hinges, brought them home and no: they didn't fit, this despite the fact that our unit, with its fold-back door, must be replicated several hundred thousand times in kitchen installations throughout the UK. So we took the "fits-all-but-not-yours" hinges back. Got a Screwfix catalog instead. As the world's biggest hardware supplier, Screwix was bound to have a set of corner cupboard hinges. And did it? No. Nothing remotely like what we were after. We'd now spent nearly a month, messing around, trying to get a corner cupboard door to close. In sheer frustration, I got out a small magnifying glass to see if I could read the name of the manufacturer on the defunct hinge. And there it was: "Danco". Although now no longer in business -- or so we'd been assured -- I decided to do an Internet search for a "Danco-like" product. Maybe some other firm had taken over. Within a couple of seconds, Kitchen Fittings Direct came up in the search result. Within 10 seconds later, I had on my computer screen: Danco Clip On Pie Cut Corner Hinge. 1,910 in stock. Far from no-longer-being-made, and even further from being the-company-that-made-these-is-no-longer-around, here instead is KFD with not merely the item itself but darn near 2,000 of them in stock and ready to go. Un-be-liev-able. I ordered the hinge and clip-on plate -- ordered 2 pairs in fact. They arrived three days later by DPD courier from Ireland (we're in the northwest of England.) They fitted -- exactly -- the positions where their predecessors had been. The installation task took just 10 minutes. And the cupboard door now finally, finally closed again . . .. Moral of the story: (1) never, ever, trust an "expert"; (2) never, ever trust anyone, no matter how well-meaning, until you've done the basic research yourself; and (3) put your faith in Kitchen Fittings Direct. This really is one company which truly knows its business.