Thrashsmith
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I thought I'd throw this one out there for ideas that may be better than my own...
I'm working on a pair of poppy themed gates for a local war memorial garden and they're each being hung off 90mm posts.
As the whole area is being landscaped by a 3rd party contractor the hanging posts are going to be bolted down to cast concrete blocks which will be poured & left to harden before install. The top surface of the blocks will be 200mm below ground level.
To give adjustibility in the top hinge I have forged a 16mm round tail on the journal and that passes through the 90mm tube (20mm x 2mm wall round tube welded inside for reinforcement = 16mm I/D) and the end of the journal tail is threaded.
You can see on the floor the beginnings of the pot that will become my bottom hinge for the tenons on the back stiles of the gates. (Extra collar to be welded on to raise the wall height).
The webs that I have welded between the post & plate are 150mm tall, leaving 50mm to ground level & the top of the pot will eventually sit 10 - 20mm above ground level.
I had always planned to weld the pot to the post, braced with a web underneath, but I'd ideally like to keep some adjustibility in it. How would you do that? The O/D of the pot is 60mm. I've got an idea that will work with some site welding during a dummy run install, but I thought I'd open it up for comment from the committee as the nose might be right under my answer...
I'm working on a pair of poppy themed gates for a local war memorial garden and they're each being hung off 90mm posts.
As the whole area is being landscaped by a 3rd party contractor the hanging posts are going to be bolted down to cast concrete blocks which will be poured & left to harden before install. The top surface of the blocks will be 200mm below ground level.
To give adjustibility in the top hinge I have forged a 16mm round tail on the journal and that passes through the 90mm tube (20mm x 2mm wall round tube welded inside for reinforcement = 16mm I/D) and the end of the journal tail is threaded.
You can see on the floor the beginnings of the pot that will become my bottom hinge for the tenons on the back stiles of the gates. (Extra collar to be welded on to raise the wall height).
The webs that I have welded between the post & plate are 150mm tall, leaving 50mm to ground level & the top of the pot will eventually sit 10 - 20mm above ground level.
I had always planned to weld the pot to the post, braced with a web underneath, but I'd ideally like to keep some adjustibility in it. How would you do that? The O/D of the pot is 60mm. I've got an idea that will work with some site welding during a dummy run install, but I thought I'd open it up for comment from the committee as the nose might be right under my answer...