The doors...anybody that has made homemade doors from scratch knows what those two words mean. No matter how hard I tried they are not both identical, but since they are on opposite sides of the Shack by the time you look at one then go to the other side they look close enough that you can't tell the difference apart. But, like every other wood worker of any kind, YOU know where the errors are even if nobody else can see them. It may not be exactly what you envisioned when you started, but luckily nobody else can "see your vision" to see where they deviate and where you compromised for the sake of just getting it finally done. I haven't put the weatherstripping on yet, or the inside trim work to hide the shims, but for the most part the hard part is done.
I am going for the "barn board" look on the inside of the doors to match the overhead clothes cabinet doors down the end. How's that for an expression..."down the end". The inside of a teardrop is barely over six feet long, and the overhead clothes cabinets come up some...so how far is "down the end" really...maybe a foot and a half away? If they were any closer they would be touching!
I used stainless steel hinges I picked up at Home Depot. They came with something like 3/4 inch stainless screws, which I promptly replaced with 1 3/4 inch #10 screws to anchor firmly into the barn board and frame. I just can't picture going down the road at 65mph and loosing a door because the screws popped out. The doors are heavier than one would think to look at them...but then again they are solid wood so one would expect them to not be light.
I still need to put some sort of safety chain on the door to keep them from swinging all the way open. That would be really bad news for me if the window were cranked out and a gust of wind caught the door and slammed it all the way open. Not only would it shatter the window, but would most likely do some damage to the side of the Shack.
So many details to try to remember.
Stainless Steel Hinges
Outside of door
Inside of door (opened to the max my space will currently allow)
Inside the Shack (minus trim)
*When doing anything, if there exists no possibility of failure, then any feeling of success is diminished.
**The glass is neither half full nor half empty...it is simply twice as big as it needs to be.
***If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
****When I die, I want to die like my grandfather, who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
by Jim Edgerly » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:25 pm 
