How To Tweak Door Hinges

How to determine hinge spacing on a door.

How to tweak door hinges.

The power of the hinge tweaker comes from the design of the hinge barrel combined with the leverage arm. If this is your first visit be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. In the door and hardware industry we would effectively call this rebending technique closing the swedging of a hinge or closing the gap. If the door from the bent in area upwards on the lower part is fine but it is just the bottom edge against the rocker is out then i would take a block of wood and position it on the bottom edge of the door and starting at the front give it a few hits with a bfh and then move the block a little towards the rear and give it another couple.

To start viewing messages select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. It tweaks the hinge by re bending which corrects the alignment of the door. Once you re bend the hinge the door realigns immediately. To be more precise the blue hinge tweaker tool is designed to rebend heavy weight 180 gauge hinges to enable the commercial doors to operate correctly.

When a door starts to sag and hang crooked it always does so from the top so the upper part of the doorknob side is where it will start to catch. In the door and hardware industry this re bending technique is called closing the swedging of a hinge or closing the gap. The hinge tweaker tools do just what the name states. The hinge tweaker tools are bringing door maintenance professionals more value with a simple well designed and ergonomically friendly tool set.

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