Forgive the OT post, please. As usual I trust the denizens of comp.cad.solidworks to come up with a useful answer to a somewhat technical question, since most people here are naturally hardware-centric. As a contributor of about six or seven years now I think maybe I might call in a favor once in a while . . . correct me if I'm wrong.
Both my neighbor and my mother need a hinge for an exterior door that is secure, but which will allow the door to open outward instead of inward. Looking over various hardware web sites (Southco, McMaster-Carr, MSC, etc.) and having gone to Home Cheapo and also Lowe's I'm still clueless. Yeh, I know there are hinges with caps that can't be taken off, but a disk cutter can still defeat the hinge. There are also hinges with pin embedded in one side and the other side with hole, and when you put two hinges in with pins facing opposite the door can't be easily taken off from outside . . . except again it can be defeated with a disk cutter. Has anyone ever seen a hinge -- maybe one that folds out (sort of) -- in which the pin is below flush and/or otherwise can't be defeated with a little elbow grease from outside?
TIA 'Sporky'