How To Cut A Steel Door For Hinges

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.

How to cut a steel door for hinges.

Cutting the horizontal parts doesn t bother me. 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. To do it right i would like to recess the hinges that i add and put some mortises in a steel door casing. I just don t know about cutting the vertical portions.

I figure i can drill and use a hacksaw to get those. 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. Tap and reposition the chisel so that you cut out all the wood inside the hinge tracing to a depth of 1 16 inch. Then grab a utility knife and extend the blade to no more than 25 in 0 64 cm.

Score the outline with a utility knife. Velcro is useful for attaching things and this hinge will not only bend it lets the door be removed if you want. How to cut out notches for door hinges. Test fit your bottom rail pic 8 and mark where the wood side rails need to be cut down pic 9.

The steel is maybe 1 8 to 3 16 thick. But you might want to consider using a door hinge jig and a router instead. Anybody have any ideas as to how to cut them. You can cut the hinges with a hammer and chisel certainly.

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. Drag the blade along each of the pencil lines creating small grooves you ll use later. Once you re happy with the outline remove your hinge from the door.