Rather than buy a new door I borrowed one from an old building. The hinges were on the wrong side so I am flipping the hardware to make it work.
I have temporally hung the door. It is a reasonably good fit for the opening but the opening itself needs to be shimmed in on the left top.
If it were not for this gorgeous handle I may not have thought about using this old door. The thumb latch mechanism needed cleaning. It still maybe a challenge to get it all working.
High temperatures are still in the 90s so I have cobbled up an evaporative cooler in the wood shop.
Both the pump and fan are powered via a GFI.
Routed out the rotted wood on the hinge end of the modern door. About a foot on each end was rotten down to the Styrofoam core. Glued replacement wood there and routed the entire thing again to make it level. Glued a new wood edge on with Loctite premium construction adhesive.
Removed the grills and the double pane window. Window was horrid dirty. Scraped much of the deposits off it but the inside seems to be dirty too. It will never look clean but OK for a shop or garage.
Found an old unopened can of Krylon fusion white paint. Clogged in the first minute. Running the can on the HF pneumatic paint shaker for 10 minutes and blowing out the nozzle made it usable.
Want to get back to the wood door. So the plan is to mount this in the shop door way so I can get the wood one off to work on. The latch hardware is still a mystery to me so it maybe in backwards for a while as I am swapping stuff around to make it hinge on the correct side just like the wood one.
Prior to painting the mutins were loose. No more.
Did some plugging and drilling to reverse the door. Inside now outside sort of thing.
Glued up some redwood to extend the bottom of the door. Pinned with 3 dowels.
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