Miscellaneous

The GAP at Tanasbourne.

If you enlarge the photo by clicking upon it, you may be able to make out that one of these two Hurculite Glass Doors is not closing all the way.

The photo collage above evidences one of the reasons why the door is not closing. The door is sagging down and rubbing upon the aluminum threshold.

These photos show some of the consequential damage to the door.

The culprit is a worn-out walking beam-pivot and the associated bronze bushing in the top of the door.

One of the doors was literally on the verge of falling over because the bracketing for one of the walking-beam-pivots had broken.

And thus it was that we proposed a hardware upgrade to the Jackson J580 Center-Hung Heavy-Duty Top Pivot hinging system.

This did of course, require some modifications to both the doors…

…and the header-jamb cavity that houses the Jackson Pivot Hinge.

This actually appears to be a substantial improvement over the walking-beam pivot.