How To Cut A Steel Door For Hinges

Cutting the horizontal parts doesn t bother me.

How to cut a steel door for hinges.

Tap and reposition the chisel so that you cut out all the wood inside the hinge tracing to a depth of 1 16 inch. When you install a door hinge you need to make notches for it on the edge of the door and on the jamb or the door won t close properly. Test fit your bottom rail pic 8 and mark where the wood side rails need to be cut down pic 9. Anybody have any ideas as to how to cut them.

Cut a couple pieces of either the hook or the loop side it doesn t matter which but it does matter that they be the same to go on the door and the base piece then use a longer piece of the other type hook or loop to attach them together. These notches or. You can cut the hinges with a hammer and chisel certainly. Go back over the tracing with the chisel cutting another 1 16 inch deep until the.

The next time that hanging a door is on your to do list you might also need to cut the hinges yourself if it isn t a pre hung door. Once you re happy with the outline remove your hinge from the door. Then grab a utility knife and extend the blade to no more than 25 in 0 64 cm. Drag the blade along each of the pencil lines creating small grooves you ll use later.

The steel is maybe 1 8 to 3 16 thick. I used a recip saw to make these cuts pic 10 11. But you might want to consider using a door hinge jig and a router instead. To do it right i would like to recess the hinges that i add and put some mortises in a steel door casing.

You ll also need to cut a little tab of steel off of each corner so the steel can be folded under the bottom rail. How to cut out notches for door hinges. I figure i can drill and use a hacksaw to get those.