Exterior Entry Door Strut attachment Ideas Please?
My small class C's entry door must stop at 90 degrees due to the awning arms location. When built, a gas strut was used as the door stop with mounting hardware on the coach exterior, and an odd angled mount that screwed into the top edge of the door positioning the ball stud attachment above the door and drip lip opening.
This worked, but not particularly well as the mount loosened with no way to tighten of improve the attaching surface. To me, the issue was that there was no stop for the strut to push the door against so only the length of the strut controlled the door opening size so when a big gust of wind caught the door when opening it one day, it yanked the stock door attachment out of the top of the door.
So... I reinforced a small section of the door exterior with a small steel plate glued to the surface to spread out the force of a door stop bar that keeps the door from opening too far, and now I need to design a new way to attach the gas strut to hold the door against the stop bar.
Above the door the rain drip lid extends approximately an inch beyond the doors vertical surface. I don't see how I am going to be able to hit solid material in the door to attach to so I'm wondering about placing opposing metal plates on each side of the door bolted together through the door as a base to make a custom offset bracket to hold the ball stud. Do you think the door will stand the strain of constant pressure on the ball stud?
Got another idea?
This worked, but not particularly well as the mount loosened with no way to tighten of improve the attaching surface. To me, the issue was that there was no stop for the strut to push the door against so only the length of the strut controlled the door opening size so when a big gust of wind caught the door when opening it one day, it yanked the stock door attachment out of the top of the door.
So... I reinforced a small section of the door exterior with a small steel plate glued to the surface to spread out the force of a door stop bar that keeps the door from opening too far, and now I need to design a new way to attach the gas strut to hold the door against the stop bar.
Above the door the rain drip lid extends approximately an inch beyond the doors vertical surface. I don't see how I am going to be able to hit solid material in the door to attach to so I'm wondering about placing opposing metal plates on each side of the door bolted together through the door as a base to make a custom offset bracket to hold the ball stud. Do you think the door will stand the strain of constant pressure on the ball stud?
Got another idea?
