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From 1984 today I've been doing architectural door documentation for some very large projects around Australia. Providing a spread sheet with a single line entry for each door. Basically describing the door and it's hardware (type of hinges and the number required etc.). Some hardware items were...

Years ago, working on Australia's New Parliament House, I was asked to details secret doors for access to pipes, tubes and wires. We could not source hinges or pivot hardware at an affordable price to incorporate the secret door details. About twenty years later I designed and started making a...

Mad ideas can be tested by experimentation. Unbelievable success. What next? There is a little more detail in the youtube clip. Howard - Canberra next?

At your local fast-food store doors to the toilets have problems. You wash you hands and then reach for the 'germy' door handle. This is a rough prototype to allow users to use an elbow to pass through the door. The pivot axis is not vertical. The door falls to the closed position. To slow the...

Sometimes you need stuff you just can't buy. This 35mm thick door porthole was made from two 8" stainless steel stove element rings from an upright electrical cooker at the tip. The screws were brass bookbinding mating screws. The rubber gasket was just lying about in the shed. I tried to make...

This small pivot door was for demonstration purposes for typical pantry flush doors. The door material was 2x layers of gloss PVC wrapped 18mm thick MDF (36mm O/A). The panels were bonded together. The magnetic catch is a pair of 22mm dia. 8mm thick rare earth donuts. The flat-strap pivots are...

Ancient manual pie press has been converted to a rivet setting press to make affordable Nylon pivot hinges for internal 35mm doors to 35kg. This particular highly modified tool now makes a new pivot type for external vertical louvres for sun, security and privacy control. The pivots are made in...