so I was searching around on the
internet for some cool stuff and project
inspiration when I came across this
crazy folding door
I tracked down where where turvy he's
the one that built this door and I asked
him for permission to build a version
for myself hey it's Johnny and man I
absolutely love your door and I would
love to build a version for myself what
do you say hi Johnny
thanks for getting in contact with me my
Audrey really came to see you build one
of these doors to shed at home I was
super excited and I knew this door would
be perfect for my shop but first I had
some rearranging and some framing to do
to make it all work
alright so I've got the wall done, and the doorway framed up and now its time to move on to actually building the door itself
but first I jumped over on my x-carve and cut out this 1/3 scale model
to give you guys kind of an idea how this door works, the different parts
think of this door as two squares, you have an upper square and a lower square
now both of these squares have to be exactly the same dimension for this thing to work well
now within each square you have a large triangle, a center trapezoid, and a small triangle where the two halves of the door meet up
then you have 3 pivot points, one at the top, one at the bottom, and one at the center.
and everything pivots around the center point
alright so there's 24 pieces that I need to cut, so I better get to it.
and real quick I want to show you all
this 3d model of the door and throw up a
shot of all the dimensions in case you
want to screen grab those for yourself
all right all my pieces are cut all the
miters are ground in and now it's time
to start welding these frames together
precision is going to be the name of the
game on this build so making sure that
all those angles are nice and square
making sure that the top frame and the
bottom frame match exactly and the way
I'm going to do that is I'll assemble
the bottom frame first tack weld it all
together and then use that as a template
to assemble the second frame right on
top of the first one and then once I
have it all together I can come back and
run full beams
real quickly before I move on to the
next steps I wanted to stop and explain
what I'm using as the hinges on this
project and what is going to be the
center pivot point so four hinges I'm
using these these are called pillow
block bearings I'll use two of them and
this three-quarter inch shaft which will
slot through this will get attached to
the frame inside the doorway and the
door is gonna pivot on these basically
what's a makeshift hinge now in the
center it's very important that
everything pivots perfectly around that
center point and for that I'm using
these super heavy-duty bushings also 3/4
inches I'll use this same piece of steel
rod that'll slot in there like that and
that Center will pivot around this giant
bushing so I have to install this by
laying out exactly where it's going to
go in between the two Center triangles
and then cutting around that and then
welding this piece in place to one of
the triangles and then there's a plate
that's gonna go over that will attach to
the other triangle and everything will
pivot around that
using that 3d models in Sketchup I
created SVG files and the doornails
and imported those into Inventables free
software easel all of those panels are
then carved out of quarter-inch Baltic
birch plywood
all right I've got all the panels cut
out and now it's time to apply a stain I
went back and forth for a while as to
what the colors I was gonna use on this
door and what I decided is I'm gonna go
with an all-black theme I figured the
easiest thing to do was use this this is
called indie ink it's super cheap I'll
leave a link for this down in the
description like I said I've got to
apply the stain to all of these let that
dry and then I can come back and do the
epoxy pours in those voids that the
light will be able to diffuse through
alright time for some epoxy pores in
these panels and the reason I'm doing
this is to completely close off the door
but then to allow light to diffuse
through it so to do that I'm using total
boats two to one epoxy this is kind of
my go-to and I'm gonna pour it in these
little voids that I cut out over on my
x-carve now the reason why it's all
taped up and clamped down in this
fashion is because this quarter-inch
plywood it's got a bit of a curve to it
so if I don't clamp it down
chances are the epoxy is gonna go
everywhere there's still a possibility
that might happen I really hope it
doesn't I think I've taken all the
precautions here so I'm gonna mix up
some epoxy add just a touch of white
pigment to diffuse it and then start
pouring it in these boys
okay so it's time to get this door hung
in the doorframe and as you see I've
already got a speed square clamped up to
keep my hinge hardware nice and straight
I showed you before but I'm using these
pillow block hinges and this
three-quarter inch steel shaft as my
makeshift hinge and then I'll mount it
with some four inch if I can get this
thing back on I'll mount it with some
four inch lag bolts into the studs
there's actually two studs back-to-back
right here and that should be strong
enough to hold this door that I'm
guessing weighs somewhere in the
neighborhood of 70 pounds pretty pretty
stout door but this should be strong
enough to hold it and that should work
in theory
in theory
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