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Replacing patio door wheels with a lump of PTFE
I've got an old patio door that is very hard to slide backwards and
forwards. It runs on 2 pairs of 30mm plastic wheels, running on a steel rail. At least one of the wheels is disintegrating, and it looks like I would have to partially dismantle the door in order to remove the wheel bogie. Rather than hunting around for a compatible replacement bogie and then taking the door apart to fit it, I was thinking of buying a nice big block of PTFE from RS, and fixing a bit of it to the bottom of the door, with a channel cut in it to keep it on the rail. Has anybody tried this? Would this have low-enough friction? Would bits of grit get stuck in the PTFE and then abrade the steel rail?Presumably there's a reason that patio doors use wheels rather than blocks of PTFE? Thanks. |
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