Upgrade screen door latch?

[Super_Dave]

Has anyone found an upgrade to the stock screen door latch? The spring in my old latch crumbled this weekend. I could put another piece of junk latch on there again and wait for it to happen again but thought I'd check to see if anyone has found a metal latch assembly or at least a little more HD built.

[rockhillmanor]

Here's Trimarks METAL screen door latch replacement. But from the diagram it still uses a plastic striker. The homemade one i mentioned about the 'whole' thing was made of metal.
http://www.trimarkcorp.com/en/media/product/060/060-1200_Rev1.pdf

[rockhillmanor]

Do a search there was a forum member a month or so ago that was fed up with the cheap plastic screen door latches and came up with what really is an easy fix.

He took the latch and traced it on some sort of airplane metal. Of course I don't think it has to be airplane metal but any think lightweight metal would do. His post showed the DIY. Sounded pretty simple. I asked him to patent it and start selling them to us! :B

[kenbert]

Just this weekend I did that mod with the magnets, work great.

Ken

[dan-nickie]

Here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsuTn7ccYkI