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How Do I Rehang Patio Screen on Its Track? jim evans 05-02-2008
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Posted by jim evans on May 3, 2008, 10:10 am
wrote:

>jim evans wrote:
>
>>I had to replace the wheels on the bottom of the screen door
>>associated with my patio door. But, I can't figure out how to rehang
>>the screen door. The upper rollers ride in a channel/track the
>>opening to which is smaller then the rollers.
>>
>>Here are pictures:
>>
>>http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7378/combop1030200re9.jpg
>>http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/3710/rollerp1030203bw3.jpg
>>http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/9117/closupp1030197gz6.jpg
>>
>>This is a sketch of the cross section of the channel/track:
>>http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/5738/graphic1xh1.gif
>>
>>
>How did you take it out?

I took it out by unscrewing the rollers from the screen frame. That's
easy taking it off, they just fall into the track, but getting behind
it to hold the rollers in place to reattach them is another thing
altogether.

> Looks like you would need to swing the bottom
>of the door away, point the rollers into the track
>at an angle?

I keep improving the sketch. Here's the latest:
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/3381/screendoorrollercomboki3.gif


Posted by Norminn on May 3, 2008, 6:07 pm
clipped

>I keep improving the sketch. Here's the latest:
>http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/3381/screendoorrollercomboki3.gif
>
>
>
Very good diagrams. I'm sure there is something I am missing,
but.....can you not prop something
behind the wheel to hold it whilst you screw the door to it? Even a
strip of cloth around the back of
the wheel, insert wheel into track, have someone hold the ends of the
cloth to start the screw, pull
the cloth out when the door is in place.

I don't usually have problems putting stuff together after I have taken
it apart, unless I drop a part
whilst looking for a tool. My worst habit is putting important parts in
a very safe place until I can
make repairs, then forgetting which safe place I put it in :o)

Posted by jim evans on May 3, 2008, 7:11 pm
wrote:

>clipped
>
>>I keep improving the sketch. Here's the latest:
>>http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/3381/screendoorrollercomboki3.gif
>>
>>
>>
>Very good diagrams. I'm sure there is something I am missing,
>but.....can you not prop something
>behind the wheel to hold it whilst you screw the door to it? Even a
>strip of cloth around the back of
>the wheel, insert wheel into track, have someone hold the ends of the
>cloth to start the screw, pull
>the cloth out when the door is in place.

I am considering trying to attach the rollers to a ribbon, spaced at
the correct distance apart. Then putting them in the track, put the
door in place and pull the ribbon to hold the rollers against the door
and move it until the holes line up. But, I've not come up with a way
to attache them to the ribbon securely enough while releasing the
ribbon after the rollers are attached. Another issue, however the
rollers are attached to the ribbon they must not leave adhesive that
will impede the rollers rotating freely on the hub.

I don't think putting a cloth "pad" behind the rollers to hold them in
place will work. The rollers must be held flat against the frame to
start the screws, particularly blind like this, and when I try to do
that the roller tip forward and fall out of the track.

I'm now considering this approach
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9620/screendoorrollertippinguo6.gif
but have not yet been to the store to get longer screws and don't know
whether a screw long enough to facilitate this will, when tightened,
strike the back of the channel/track.

Posted by Norminn on May 3, 2008, 7:40 pm
What I was suggesting was not to fasten anything to the roller, but just
to use the strip of cloth around
the back of the roller like a sling - keep tension on the strip of cloth
to hold it toward the front of the
track until you get the screws started, then just remove the strip when
the screws are in. Capiche?

Posted by TD on May 3, 2008, 1:33 am

> I had to replace the wheels on the bottom of the screen door
> associated with my patio door. But, I can't figure out how to rehang
> the screen door. The upper rollers ride in a channel/track the
> opening to which is smaller then the rollers.
>
> Here are pictures:
>
> http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7378/combop1030200re9.jpg
> http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/3710/rollerp1030203bw3.jpg
> http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/9117/closupp1030197gz6.jpg
>
> This is a sketch of the cross section of the channel/track:
> http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/5738/graphic1xh1.gif
>

Danged things never go back where they're supposed to.

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