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Originally Posted by Seti808  XSergeantD yes they are IAC 3 hinge doors and you got me worried they might have got a little dust in the hinges from sitting exposed for a few nights.
They open and close smooth as butter right now.
These things are a serious bitch to install and taking them out will not be fun.
I might have to paint one or 2 of them of them due to a little pain scrape here and
there. Tell me more about your issues with painting them. |
Well, just cover the hinges as best you can until all the construction is done. As for taking the doors off th hinges, a big guy pulled one off here by himself - NOT ME. Being gravity hinges, they just slide right off provided there is 2 or 3 inches of room overhead to be able to lift th door up. After thatm they took the male and female parts o the hinges down to the shop for cleaning and greased them up nicely with some white lithium grease. Once they were back on, they were better than my memory from day 1. No damage to the hings, no looseness, nothing - I was afraid the friction migh o filed some metal off and then those filings took more metal off. But everything turned out great. (and I'm talking bout the worst dorr, which one needed to place their hands on the wall to continue pulling he door open) So don't sweat too much over them, just be sure to maybe take em off and lube em up after construction isdone, but the big guy is still around to pull the doors off the hinges.
Arrgh, painting. I'd send an email to iac. our paint guys didn't do anything speacial and even when we hung a sign up with scotch tape, the paint came off when the tape was pulled off. Be sure to order kick plates and install them too, and when you hold a painted door open w/ your foot, eventually the base o the door will start to look like cr@p. I've place little magnets on the back of all our signage for the doors, so there's no need to tape anything there again. Let me know if you find a better way to get the paint to adhere, maybe IAC will advise scuffing the door first.
Samara says hey. Sorry I missed you when you were in, I remember her saying someone from HI was stopping by the next day, but I guess we missed meeting when you were in.