wanted: hangar door tips

(Joa) wrote in message

Any tips from those of you that have built or used this style of door?

Thanks folks.

J oa

Yeah, get a bi-fold. It's worth it. My damn custom hydro door always
jams, and instead of working on an airplane, I get to spend all my
time doing maintenance to the property. Those segmented doors always
rattle and will drive you crazy.

pac

Rollers, folders.... all asking for trouble. Why not a garage-door
style door, single piece and folding upward with help from low-tech
springs? That's what we recommend for county hangars. Very low
maintenance, can be automated, and don't flop around in the wind.

My opinion only, of course.

How can you get a 40 ft garage style door to work properly. Can you imagine
one track holding each end. Wouldn't the midlle colapse when in the up
position?

J.P.
"Musky" wrote in message
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Rollers, folders.... all asking for trouble. Why not a garage-door
style door, single piece and folding upward with help from low-tech
springs? That's what we recommend for county hangars. Very low
maintenance, can be automated, and don't flop around in the wind.

My opinion only, of course.

http://www.dpindustries.com/onepiece...nterweight.htm

more on doors:

http://www.hangartrader.com/aircraft_hangar_doors.htm

Jean-Paul Roy wrote:
How can you get a 40 ft garage style door to work properly. Can you imagine
one track holding each end. Wouldn't the midlle colapse when in the up
position?

thank you very much, Very informative.

regards

Jean-Paul
"Musky" wrote in message
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http://www.dpindustries.com/onepiece...nterweight.htm

more on doors:

http://www.hangartrader.com/aircraft_hangar_doors.htm

Jean-Paul Roy wrote:
How can you get a 40 ft garage style door to work properly. Can you
imagine
one track holding each end. Wouldn't the midlle colapse when in the up
position?

"Jean-Paul Roy" wrote in message m...
How can you get a 40 ft garage style door to work properly. Can you imagine
one track holding each end. Wouldn't the midlle colapse when in the up
position?

J.P.
"Musky" wrote in message
...
Rollers, folders.... all asking for trouble. Why not a garage-door
style door, single piece and folding upward with help from low-tech
springs? That's what we recommend for county hangars. Very low
maintenance, can be automated, and don't flop around in the wind.

My opinion only, of course.


Mine is a single piece 50 ft "garage-type" steel door with a
residential door and six residential windows in it. It is suspended
on cables and guided by two parabolic curved tubes. Every time
there's an earthquake slight alignment problems delvelop and the side
rollers take huge stresses and snap apart the sides of the building.
The side rollers attract dust and are high mtc. But it allows me to
have windows and a man-door which is nice. But for dependability I'd
have gone with an electric bi-fold if I had to do it over again.

pac

I've seen multiple overhead doors side by side that each runs on its own set of tracks. Once all the doors are open, the
vertical track portions of the doors that get in the way of the clear opening are removed via a couple of clips. The
open doors are fully supported by the overhead tracks still in place. You then re-install the vertical tracks when ready
to close the door.

--
Dan D.



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"Jean-Paul Roy" wrote in message ...
How can you get a 40 ft garage style door to work properly. Can you imagine
one track holding each end. Wouldn't the midlle colapse when in the up
position?

J.P.
"Musky" wrote in message
...
Rollers, folders.... all asking for trouble. Why not a garage-door
style door, single piece and folding upward with help from low-tech
springs? That's what we recommend for county hangars. Very low
maintenance, can be automated, and don't flop around in the wind.

My opinion only, of course.