Sliding doors

yoda

yoda

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The heads doors in my Nich 345 were built with 2 small wheels in the bottom and sit within wooden runners top and bottom. The wheels have corroded solid and also caused the door to swell jamming the doors on the side of the runners. Rather than replace the wheels I am considering if using some form of nylon or PTFE shoe on the bottom of the door would get rid of the moving parts and complexity of wheels while allowing the door to still slide. Any thoughts or experience of similar problems out there?

Yoda
 
grit (yes, even on board !) in the slider. It happened in the sliding door to my wheelhouse, and I had to jemmy it off the rails to fix it. I put strips of brush stuff (used for preventing draughts) in front of the wheelset to clear grit.

Worked fine.
 
That's a great idea Sarabande. I have a similar problem on the Centurion. I think I shall try to adapt a couple of discarded toothbrushes because all the draught-excluders that I have come across have ferrous material to hold the bristles in place.
 
Sorry, should have been more explicit. The cause of the jamming was the heavily corroded wheels causing the door to swell and jam in the runner. I am looking to replace the wheels with a non-rotating alternative that will enable the door to slide easily in a wooden runner.

Yoda
 
Yoda, sorry , thread drift with PMD.


Apple wood is very slidey stuff. It's used for gears and runners in windmills, and cart axles. A strip of that might be a good bearing surface ?
 
I have some sail battens that would be wide enough to go under a door, and I suspect they would slide well. Made out of some sort of plastic. If you have same stick one under the door and see what happens.
 
Sliding-door wheels

If you do go for wheels in the end, you may well find that the originals came from Henderson. I replaced like-for-like on my Nic 35.
 
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