How To Cut A Steel Door For Hinges

The next time that hanging a door is on your to do list you might also need to cut the hinges yourself if it isn t a pre hung door.

How to cut a steel door for hinges.

Score the outline with a utility knife. Go back over the tracing with the chisel cutting another 1 16 inch deep until the. When you install a door hinge you need to make notches for it on the edge of the door and on the jamb or the door won t close properly. The steel is maybe 1 8 to 3 16 thick.

How to cut out notches for door hinges. Velcro is useful for attaching things and this hinge will not only bend it lets the door be removed if you want. Anybody have any ideas as to how to cut them. You ll also need to cut a little tab of steel off of each corner so the steel can be folded under the bottom rail.

Test fit your bottom rail pic 8 and mark where the wood side rails need to be cut down pic 9. These notches or. Tap and reposition the chisel so that you cut out all the wood inside the hinge tracing to a depth of 1 16 inch. I just don t know about cutting the vertical portions.

I figure i can drill and use a hacksaw to get those. Then grab a utility knife and extend the blade to no more than 25 in 0 64 cm. Drag the blade along each of the pencil lines creating small grooves you ll use later. But you might want to consider using a door hinge jig and a router instead.

To do it right i would like to recess the hinges that i add and put some mortises in a steel door casing. Cut a couple pieces of either the hook or the loop side it doesn t matter which but it does matter that they be the same to go on the door and the base piece then use a longer piece of the other type hook or loop to attach them together. I used a recip saw to make these cuts pic 10 11.