yeah -
part of the issue, well more precisely 50% of the issue, is the
extremely thick (and heavy door) seal which is hard to compress. I am
seriously thinking about installing a Home depot soft draft excluder.
William Daniell
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 4:44 PM n7188u <chmgarb@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Will,
>
> Not sure I can (or should) recommend much but I would touch bases with
> Bud. He has a nice write up on building the doors and make them fit
> properly. Heat is mentioned a lot but on a door that is already built not
> sure how that would go.
>
> I would think that removing the doors, Fixturing carefully to impart
> stress in the direction you want to correct the bow and judicious
> application of heat would be the way to go.
>
> Depending on where the bow is (you don't mention) there has been a lot of
> discussion on installing a latch half way at the bottom of the door.
>
> But don't take my word for it since I really never had a need to do
> something like that. My doors where already built and are actually the
> doors used on the Europa USA mockup they used at the shows (or so I was
> told) and I think that the years heat and abuse has cured them enough to
> make them hold their shape!.
>
> Best Regards,
> Chris
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=506594#506594
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