How To Cut A Steel Door For Hinges

To do it right i would like to recess the hinges that i add and put some mortises in a steel door casing.

How to cut a steel door for hinges.

Go back over the tracing with the chisel cutting another 1 16 inch deep until the. The steel is maybe 1 8 to 3 16 thick. You can cut the hinges with a hammer and chisel certainly. 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. Test fit your bottom rail pic 8 and mark where the wood side rails need to be cut down pic 9. 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.

Drag the blade along each of the pencil lines creating small grooves you ll use later. I just don t know about cutting the vertical portions. How to cut out notches for door hinges. But you might want to consider using a door hinge jig and a router instead.

Once you re happy with the outline remove your hinge from the door. 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. Score the outline with a utility knife.

Velcro is useful for attaching things and this hinge will not only bend it lets the door be removed if you want. 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. Cutting the horizontal parts doesn t bother me.