How To Cut A Steel Door For Hinges

Once you re happy with the outline remove your hinge from the door.

How to cut a steel door for hinges.

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. Drag the blade along each of the pencil lines creating small grooves you ll use later. To do it right i would like to recess the hinges that i add and put some mortises in a steel door casing. I figure i can drill and use a hacksaw to get those.

Cutting the horizontal parts doesn t bother me. 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. The steel is maybe 1 8 to 3 16 thick.

But you might want to consider using a door hinge jig and a router instead. 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. Go back over the tracing with the chisel cutting another 1 16 inch deep until the. I just don t know about cutting the vertical portions.

Tap and reposition the chisel so that you cut out all the wood inside the hinge tracing to a depth of 1 16 inch. 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. Then grab a utility knife and extend the blade to no more than 25 in 0 64 cm. Score the outline with a utility knife.

You can cut the hinges with a hammer and chisel certainly. I used a recip saw to make these cuts pic 10 11. These notches or.