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Posted by on April 19, 2008, 2:20 pm
I have heavy glass sliding doors in one bedroom closet.
(They slide past each other on different rails.)
One of the doors has begun to stick, making it hard
to push. I looked at the rail and saw black, sticky stuff.
I'm conjecturing , faut de mieux, that it's rubber, somehow
come off the gasket that (I assume) lines the underpart
of the door that slides on the rail. Correct assumption?
I tried removing the gunk with several solvents -- alcohol and
paint remover -- but no luck.
The doors are far too heavy for one person to remove just to examine
the possibility of rubber (or whatever) coming off on the rail,
and I don't want to call in reinforcements *if not necessary*.
However, if a gasket is deteriorating, I'd have to bite the bullet.
Thanks for any input.
TIA
Aspasia
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Posted by Modern Composite Doors on April 24, 2008, 4:03 am
On Apr 19, 7:20=A0pm, aspasia wrote:
> I have heavy glassslidingdoorsin one bedroom closet.
> (They slide past each other on different rails.)
>
> One of thedoorshas begun to stick, making it hard
> to push. =A0I looked at the rail and saw black, sticky stuff.
> I'm conjecturing , faut de mieux, that it's rubber, somehow
> come off the gasket that =A0(I assume) lines the underpart
> of the door that slides on the rail. =A0Correct assumption?
>
> I tried removing the gunk with several solvents -- alcohol and
> paint remover -- but no luck.
>
> Thedoorsare far too heavy for one person to remove just to examine
> the possibility of rubber (or whatever) coming off on the rail,
> and I don't want to call in reinforcements =A0*if not necessary*.
>
> However, if a gasket is deteriorating, I'd have to bite the bullet.
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
> TIA
>
> Aspasia
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Posted by Red Green on April 24, 2008, 9:21 pm
>
> I have heavy glass sliding doors in one bedroom closet.
> (They slide past each other on different rails.)
>
> One of the doors has begun to stick, making it hard
> to push. I looked at the rail and saw black, sticky stuff.
> I'm conjecturing , faut de mieux, that it's rubber, somehow
> come off the gasket that (I assume) lines the underpart
> of the door that slides on the rail. Correct assumption?
>
> I tried removing the gunk with several solvents -- alcohol and
> paint remover -- but no luck.
>
> The doors are far too heavy for one person to remove just to examine
> the possibility of rubber (or whatever) coming off on the rail,
> and I don't want to call in reinforcements *if not necessary*.
>
> However, if a gasket is deteriorating, I'd have to bite the bullet.
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
> TIA
>
> Aspasia
> I'm conjecturing
That's like the dry heaves or something ain't it? Happen a lot? Maybe
baking soda will help.
> ... faut de mieux,
You're a rapper I bet.
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Posted by Smitty Two on April 25, 2008, 1:34 am
> I have heavy glass sliding doors in one bedroom closet.
> (They slide past each other on different rails.)
>
> One of the doors has begun to stick, making it hard
> to push. I looked at the rail and saw black, sticky stuff.
> I'm conjecturing , faut de mieux, that it's rubber, somehow
> come off the gasket that (I assume) lines the underpart
> of the door that slides on the rail. Correct assumption?
>
> I tried removing the gunk with several solvents -- alcohol and
> paint remover -- but no luck.
>
> The doors are far too heavy for one person to remove just to examine
> the possibility of rubber (or whatever) coming off on the rail,
> and I don't want to call in reinforcements *if not necessary*.
>
> However, if a gasket is deteriorating, I'd have to bite the bullet.
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
> TIA
>
> Aspasia
Nope, sorry, your mental image is flawed. Sliding glass doors are
mis-named. They're really rolling glass doors. Yep, they roll on little
bitty plastic wheels. Yours are either broken, worn flat, jammed, or, if
you're very lucky, just misadjusted.
That black stuff is aluminum, the result of your rolling glass door
having been unwittingly converted to a sliding glass door. You *may* be
able to adjust the rollers with a screwdriver, without removing the
door, but if that fails, you will have to take the door off the tracks
and fix or replace the roller(s.)
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