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Rolling Glass Door (was security lights)
Ha, well, I pulled a switcheroo this weekend and fixed my g.f.'s rolling
glass door instead of installing security lights. Need to do a bit more research and thinking about the lights. But thanks to everyone for the sliding glass door thread recently, which prompted me to tackle this one instead. I knew naught about adjustment screws before, and although I realized there were rollers, I never thought about the stupidity of lubricating the track. Her house was built in 1960 and the door is almost certainly original. Spent a while with rags cleaning the accumulated grease and dirt from the track, then tried the adjustment screws which made no discernible difference. Pulled the fixed panel, pulled the roller/slider, expecting to find flat or broken rollers. Took me a while to figure out how to remove the mechanisms and figure out how they were supposed to work. Turns out they were in perfect shape, but for some reason the axles were collapsed into vertical grooves, beyond the adjustment ramp. So the adjustment screws couldn't pull the wheels up the ramp. Cleaned the mechanisms with a toothbrush and some WD-40, of course, but wanting to be safe I used the old flammable stuff rather than the new extremely flammable stuff. Bottom line: spectacularly successful zero dollar repair. Moral: Take the advice of others here; don't lube the track, fix the damn rollers. The doors are misnamed. |
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