mk e wrote:
A few inches off the springs and I think the doors are fixed
With the amount of spring I cut off the fatigue life is probably down to about 5000 cycles now that I really look at things. Normally they say 10k is the min spec.....but it is just a shop.......
The springs could stand to be just a tad stiffer but I'm not cutting anymore because of fatigue. If I ever have them apart again I'll probably shorten the cables about 6" too to get the very bottom further onto the taper so it will tolerate more spring in the mid section and still sit on the bottom seal well but for now they are way better than the doors on my house so good enough. They also don't weigh the the 130lb the manufacture told me...they weight 149 which might make this whole thing not completely the door places fault as I'm sure they would have given me stiffer springs with this heavier number....but the math says the one they speced come out at about 150lbs so that's confusing, I assumed they added 20lb for hardware....who knows I guess.
Sunday i decided to install the top door seals....and that wasted my whole day. the 8x7 door are exactly 8 wide but more like 7'1" tall. The height is a problem of sorts in that I made the opening 7...stucco took maybe 1/2" then the molding sits down another 1/2" then the seal thing an inch....and lays on the window frame or just above it and acts as a ratchet lock against the window frame. This lead me to conclude I should move all the moldings out away from the door a bit and that helped a lot.....but now that the side molding were tight for months they taken a bit of a set and don't really seal at all and its noticeably colder near the doors than it was......if its not 1 thing its another.....
Gutter guys are supposed to be coming today, hopefully that goes better than the doors.