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Posted by AKA gray asphalt on January 6, 2007, 8:10 pm
I would appreciate a picture. Did your invention fit in the existing track?
I guess I'm having difficulty picturing it.
> AKA gray asphalt wrote:
>> The door is about 8 years old. It doesn't have any plastic wheels or
>> anything other than what looks like a tongue and groove between the door
>> and
>> the frame. I removed it once and cleaned it and put in some teflon stuff.
>> It
>> worked for about 6 months. Now it is really sticky and cleaning didn't
>> help.
>>
>> What should I do?
>> Are the doors usually a standard size? It's a tract home.
>> I'm cheap.
>
> I'm retired and that can make ya cheap (and creative). ;) If your
> door is anything like ours its toast. There was a wheel and it wore
> out. The alum base was (center hump the wheel rode on was pretty much
> gone. My improvisation has lasted a year and is going strong. If I can
> find our camera (granddaughter usually has it) I'll take a picture and
> post it later today. (It's 7:00 AM in Calif) See if you can visualize
> this:
>
> I picked up a roller assembly that is normally used on heavy closet
> doors. Its about 3" tall X 1 1/2" wide X 3/8" thick with a nylon wheel
> (about 3/4" dia) at one end (protruding about 1/4 ") and an adjustable
> screw for the wheel at the other. At the wheel end there are two
> flanges with holes for screws and mounting. I drilled one hole through
> the upper left corner and used three screws to fasten it to the outside,
> closest to the door frame and of course, the bottom. The beauty is that
> once in place, its adjustable. The nylon wheel is grooved to ride a
> hump but in this set up it rides on the outside edges.
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