The installation of the gate can be called the most time-consuming exercise, because welding will be involved in the process of creating the frame of the frame. How correctly and correctly it is necessary to make installation works on the device of the gate swinging on the backyard?
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Mechanical gates and automated gates
The increased demands of mankind for quality and aesthetics of products of daily use and application become paramount. Such requirements can be fully attributed to mechanical or automated gates, located on the backyard.
There are gates swinging mechanical and automated.
Gates are used to enter the territory of the site, in garages or covered parking lots and other premises. Among the numerous types of automated gates, and these are recoiling, lifting-turning, sectional and swinging, the latter are the most popular.
For the automation of the swing gate there is a special equipment.
These are automatic drives, elements of security and remote control of the system. By what principles should you set up the gate and how to make a swing gates yourself?
Types of swing gates and their construction
Traditionally, the design of the swing gate is performed in the style solution with the main enclosure of the cottage or plot. However, the gate leaves assume a different kind of filling. It can be the following materials:
• profiled or steel sheet
• forging elements
• tree.
In addition, the shield or shutters of the metal swinging gates are made of a steel single-layer or double-layer smooth sheet. The lining of the flaps can also be made from sandwich panels, or be of a lattice welded structure.
For swing gates at the entrance, both doors open into the territory, and in the garage gates to the outside.
Regardless of the orientation of the opening, the flaps are fixed on the poles of the fence. Hinges for swing gates may differ in different designs, but the main function of the hinges is to ensure the ease and smoothness of the gate leaf movement.
Unlike mechanical swing gates, which are opened and closed by hand, automated create complete comfort when using the gate.
the design of the swing gate
The main design elements of the swing gates are:
• Supporting metal frame
• Racks and posts for frame fastening
• sash doors with plating
• drive (for automated types)
• gate valve
• Loops.
This construction is identical to the gate of swinging wooden, made of corrugated board or from forged elements.
Regardless of the type and material of the manufacture of the swing gates,
the manufacturing and installation process will consist of the following steps:
• Drawing up a swing gate drawing, calculation and planning
• selecting and acquiring the necessary material
• installation of supports (posts and poles)
• assembly of the frame metal frame
• carcass plating of the frame and flaps
• installation of leaflets.
After drawing up the drawing of the swing gate and the acquisition of material, it is possible to install the gate yourself. For the manufacture and subsequent installation of swing gates, these tools are required: a welding machine, a grinder and a grinding wheel.
How to install the gate of the swinging with your own hands
In order to get a sense of the importance of the installation of the gates, let's show by example how the installation of swing gates from the corrugated board is made. Sheets of corrugated board are considered the most demanded material for the manufacture of swing gates.
Step 1. Assembling the supporting metal frame.
The metal supporting frame is a rigid welded structure of rectangular shape of standard dimensions of 3000x2000 mm., Consisting of two flaps. Technologically, there are embedded (loops) for the fastening of the skin to the flaps.
To create a frame, a profile pipe with a section of 60x30x2 mm is used, from which it is necessary to weld the frame of the gate leaf. For welding a metal frame, it is necessary to have a welding machine and the skills of conducting simple welding operations.
Step 2. Installation of pillars and poles for fastening the frame.
As racks and poles for fastening the gate use a pipe profile section of 100x100 mm, pillars of concrete or brick. A brick pillar for fixing the frame is erected in the traditional way. Sees a hole for the foundation to a depth of 1 m., Provide reinforcement and laying in the middle column of profiled tube and produce concreting foundation.
To install the fasteners from the hinges, it is necessary to take out the mortars from the filled pillar to the steel corner, which are then welded to the pipe.
Step 3. Mounting frame frame and flaps
We make from a profile pipe section of 50x50 mm of the frame frame of the required length. Then we weld the wings of the required size into a rectangular frame. After the outer frame is ready, the inner frame tubes are welded.
The pipe is welded with tack welds, maintaining a distance of up to 25 cm between adjacent potholders. For one-sided cladding of the gates, the inner frame is slightly shifted relative to one side of the gate. To create an internal stiffening frame structure of braces reinforce profiled pipe 20x20 mm., Which is welded to a diagonal flaps.
After completion of the frame structure making the welds polished grinder, and the loop is welded to the metal surface a primer layer is applied.
Step 4. Preparation of loops and their welding to the frame
Making the swing gates, it is necessary to consider the type of hinges that will hold the flap on the pole. Therefore, it is recommended to use hinges with bearings, which will ensure the ease of the wings.
Depending on the weight of the frame it is necessary to install from four to six loops on each leaf. Loops are preferable to install on a steel plate or corner with prepared holes for installation.
The processes of welding the frame and the installation of loops are shown quite accurately in the video.
The final stage of creating the gate will be the cutting of the welded frame in the center of the frame into two doors.
Step 5. Sheathing of leaflets
The lining of the flaps can be one-sided and two-sided. If the sheathing is assumed to be one-sided, then the fastening is made to the inner frame of the frame.
Recall that as the skin of the gate leaf can be used corrugated sheet, metal sheets or polycarbonate sheets. Sheets of corrugated board are prepared according to the size of the leaflets. The lining of the flaps is fixed using self-tapping screws or rivets.
After installing the skin, we make the finishing with a special paint.
More detailed information on how to install the swing gates yourself is presented in this video.
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