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That looks great. How are you attaching it to the wall?
 
69LC said:
So I made a bit of progress with the first door hangar prototype. I'm showing one "tree" of the system. There will be two trees which will each attach to ~2ft lengths of unistrut. this will allow for mounting to 16-24" stud walls and infinite lateral adjustment for the best settup in any place for door storage.

I didn't have doors with me at the shop so I had to guess on dimensions. I'm thinking the loops nearest the wall should be a bit further out from the tree for hanging the doors into a corner.

I don't have pretty doors...
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I feel this first setup would work best for doors with mirrors on them.

I've also stored them as in the second photo, but staggered so that the mirror of the first door is just in front of the mirror of the second.
 
I like it so far. Do you think it has to bridge 2 studs or could the wall attachment be verticle on a single stud with multiple lag points?
 
Received my hinges the other day- beautiful! With the Holidays/travel coming I dont know to find time to get these in place. Thanks.
Hangars:
Just a thought - but could it be done to have the doors hang with the hinges 'up' and latch 'down (kinda like the bike) using an upper and lower hanger for hanging two doors on the same stud? This set-up would work better for me and I would be willing to pay for it.
 
I like what I'm seeing. I never have worked with uni-strut, but I think it is a good idea. With the strut you can mount the tree any place on the strut and not be limited by where the studs are placed in the wall.

Outdoor707, you should not have any problems hanging from a single stud, as long as you use multiple lags and be sure to keep the tree snug to the wall. Use 5/16ths or larger lag bolts, as most screws (and smaller lags) available to the public are too soft and will bend/break easily. This comes from lots of experience in construction and cabinet shops, fifteen years of which was installing cabinets in residential and commercial buildings.

Don
 
couple thoughts

I was considering supplying huge, broadhead torx screws. The 5/16 can hold a lot.

My only concerns about only using one stud is the twisting and sheer force the doors would exert on the stud, especially if they were hung in parallel on one side of the bracket. Using two unistrut spreader bars across two studs would spread the load. If you have a bare stud, I could use a different mount instead of unistrut; something like a channel that the trees would be welded to and would wrap three sides of the stud. It would only be adjustable vertically.

I was designing this to accommodate semi-finished garages. Is that the norm or should it go more for a bare stud settup?
 
db2nsoaz said:
Received my hinges the other day- beautiful! With the Holidays/travel coming I dont know to find time to get these in place. Thanks.
Hangars:
Just a thought - but could it be done to have the doors hang with the hinges 'up' and latch 'down (kinda like the bike) using an upper and lower hanger for hanging two doors on the same stud? This set-up would work better for me and I would be willing to pay for it.
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I'm glad you received your hinges. Post up some photos of how you finish them and after they're mounted. MicahMan is the only one to post his up.

I'll have to experiment with a horizontal hangar bracket.

I don't have mirrors right now. How much room is needed between the doors with the mirrors mounted and folded?
 
I like the 2 stud span idea w/unistrut. Seems like it would be more secure and would work for finished and un-finished walls. Mine are bare studs.

I would love to get 4 doors on one set stacked so the strength must be good. I don't know the weight. Remember ambu doors are 19 3/4 top of hinge to top of hinge versus only 15 for regular doors. So the bracket would somehow have to accommodate that. Also ambus are 40 1/2 H x 20 1/2 W versus regular doors at 45 H x 34 W. So much smaller and no mirror protruding and they have the 7 degree pitch at the top.
 
I just weighed my ambulance doors. The left is 24 lbs. the right is 27 lbs. I assume the door handle inside and out and the license plate holder are the reason for the difference.
 
Also note that the license plate holder sticks out 3 inches from the outer rear part of the door (4 inches from the recessed section).
 
Just saw this thread and will be ordering some hinges but really love the wall hanger idea.

First off don't worry about the weight a 2x4 is designed to support 300lbs so this will not pose a problem and you can do it off of one stud. Now having it span 2 studs might be better for people who don't have a stud in the exact spot they want to mount to keep the doors centered on the wall.

I may have missed this in the previous posts but were you planning on having a mount point for both hinges or just the middle one? I would assume both but just making sure.
I would think each one would be connected by a piece of flat stock and you can always have another piece of flat stock steel running horizontal from each of the hinge mount points to act as an attachment point to the wall. Think of a sideways H and the unistrut is welded to the middle points of the long section of the H where the short piece connects. Does this make sense? I can visualize and draw it but can't seem to describe it well.

Then the long sections of the H can have multiple slots along it so that stud placement is meaningless and you have many places to lag it in. Just take a look at any flat panel TV mount to see what I'm talking about (this is what I do for a living hence where I got the idea).

I would love one of these as well once you are done with one!


69LC said:
I was considering supplying huge, broadhead torx screws. The 5/16 can hold a lot.

My only concerns about only using one stud is the twisting and sheer force the doors would exert on the stud, especially if they were hung in parallel on one side of the bracket. Using two unistrut spreader bars across two studs would spread the load. If you have a bare stud, I could use a different mount instead of unistrut; something like a channel that the trees would be welded to and would wrap three sides of the stud. It would only be adjustable vertically.

I was designing this to accommodate semi-finished garages. Is that the norm or should it go more for a bare stud settup?
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door details.

Speeter said:
Also note that the license plate holder sticks out 3 inches from the outer rear part of the door (4 inches from the recessed section).
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Speeter said:
I just weighed my ambulance doors. The left is 24 lbs. the right is 27 lbs. I assume the door handle inside and out and the license plate holder are the reason for the difference.
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Thank you for those details. I will use them accordingly.
 
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Lovin the hinges!

I received my Quik Hinges yesterday. My xmas gift to my cruiser!

They are great! Super beefy and beautifully made. Hopefully I'll get them coated and installed soon and then I can look forward to next summer when I can just pop the doors on and off.

Thanks again Matt! :beer:
 
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