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Stiff door
RE: Stiff door
in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Fri Aug 06, 2021 9:03 amby eribaMotters •
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It has probably twisted a little or dropped. If you stand well back you will more often that not see the waist line on the door is slightly out of skew with that on the caravan body. Initially do not try and manipulate the door back into place. I have lifted my door off and dropped a couple of red fibre washers [I could not find my white nylon ones] onto the pins before putting the door back with a squirt of ptfe spray on these pins. I did this a couple of summers ago and the door has continued to move more freely. Some resistance is a good thing though as the door will be more likely to stay open at 90 degrees when the awning is up.
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RE: Stiff door
in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Fri Aug 06, 2021 3:02 pmby eribaMotters •
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RE: Stiff door
in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:13 amby Randa france •
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That's one of the things I have nightmares about. The Eriba door hinges DO look very vunlnerable to me as well. However, as far as I've been able to ascertain, the door does just lift up and off although I've never tried it. Probably best with two people even if to give you moral support.
Before you do so though, are you able to check to see if one of the hinges had moved slightly on it's fixing bolts? This might be the reason for the stiffness. Does it feel that the hinges are most likely the problem? I have heard of folk who take the door off and bend it slightly to alter the angle of the shape before refitting it.
Randa
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RE: Stiff door
in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:15 pmby Julie Grafo •
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The door comes of incredibly easily, coincidentally our door wouldn’t shut yesterday. Neil tried to lift it slightly to clear the bottom where it appeared to be catching and it came off in his hand. With a stunned look he was standing there holding the door. It was more of a problem getting it lined up to drop it back on. The reason it wouldn’t close turned out to be a large bit of stone from the hard standing that were on, doh 🤦♀️
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RE: Stiff door
in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Sat Sep 10, 2022 7:50 amby AJW •
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Thanks Julie and Randa. Much encouragement. Re your point Randa, it is hard to tell whether it is stiff hinges, or a door that has either gone out of shape. I don’t think it is the Allen-bolted fixing of hinges to the door frame, as there is no evidence of movement (e.g relatively clean bits of frame where now exposed by a slipped hinge bracket). I am not sure how the other half of the hinge is fixed to the door. Presume I need to remove the door lining to see, and am not sure how to do this. It would be nice to think there was generally some tolerance in the hinge fixing bolts to get the hinge pins parallel so the two hinges are not fighting each other. All of this leads back to improving the lubrication as the first and easiest thing to try! Thoughts?
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RE: Stiff door
in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Mon Sep 12, 2022 8:37 pmby Julie Grafo •
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RE: Stiff door
in Improving your pride and joy and how to fix things Tue Sep 13, 2022 9:42 amby Randa france •
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Quote: Julie Grafo wrote in post #14
Plastic washers? We didnt have any of those! Are they essential, has a previous owner lost them? Now Im worried, I wasnt worried before 🤔😲
Not the previous owner Julie. The last person who took the door off
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