BUILD YOUR OWN DOOR KIT

Schweiss has designed and figured out a simple way for customers to build their own hydraulic doorframe, but more importantly, without sacrificing the Schweiss quality and the unique design features we offer!

Benefits of building your own door are not only rewarding, but it can save thousands of dollars. We have customers that start out with one door and soon after they are ordering their second and third doors.

We realized the great demand for the popular Schweiss Hydraulic Door Design and figured out a way for customers who are willing to weld their own steel doorframes together to purchase our major hydraulic door components that are properly sized from Schweiss Doors.

The challenge when figuring out the Build Your Own Door Kit, was to be able to develop a hinge that comes preassembled, prewelded, and is robust in design. By going back to the drawing board the design team had its work cut out for them - the end results were very rewarding. In the design process we figured out a uni-body hinge design that wraps around the steel doorframe members, making it the strongest, most reliable hinge design in the door industry. It now includes the first of its kind hydraulic hinge on the market with grease zerks where hinges can be greased from inside the building. Others either have no grease zerks or must remove the outside rubber gasket at the top of the door to get to the grease zerks; very costly, time consuming, and hard to get to. So, guess what? The hinges are most likely left unlubricated! The Hydraulic Door Kit consists of a complete set of new heavy-duty end and center hinges with grease zerks, a factory wired Red Power hydraulic unit and all the seals necessary to provide a weathertight door.

A New Innovation from Schweiss Doors

SCHWEISS HYDRAULIC DESIGN SOFTWARE

Schweiss' newly designed door software, extensive engineering, and new "patent applied for" door components make the door kit possible. It's now easy and simple for customers to manufacture the steel doorframe with these door components, making the door kit user-friendly, thereby allowing hydraulic doors to be built in your own shop. The Schweiss design software provides all the necessary door specs, weights, forces, and detailed information needed when designing your building structure for a hydraulic door.

The (BYOD) Build Your Own Door Kit reduces delivery cost to the end-user, even as steel and fuel prices increase. Our door components are easy to ship and can be easily installed, and your doorframes can be welded at any location, worldwide.

You will appreciate the Schweiss Door Kit design, and the ease and convenience of welding your own doorframe in your own shop. The complete kit includes everything necessary to give you the same quality Schweiss Advantage.

Schweiss understands what keeps a business going. Schweiss is a dependable door company that manufactures a better and safer product.

• Build Your Own Doorframe
• Save More Money
• Afford More Doors

(B.Y.O.D.) Build Your Own Door Kit... Only from Schweiss Doors!

• Do It Yourself... Cut out the "Middleman" and SAVE MONEY!
• "The savings are in your pocket, which allows you to afford more Doors."
• 100% satisfaction guarantee... The Schweiss Warranty!

BUILD YOUR OWN DOOR KIT...

B.Y.O.D. - Only from Schweiss Doors

WELD YOUR OWN DOORFRAME

Schweiss furnishes an easy-to-read blueprint and complete steel list to get you started building your own doorframe. Hinge components are pre-welded into an assembly for your convience; simply position the hinges and weld them on!

Schweiss door design uses solid tubular steel frame members. We don't use wood or C-channels.

Manufacturing plans from the Schweiss Design Team are included with each hydraulic doorframe. All welding and fabrication of the subframe and doorframe will be done by the customer, under Schweiss direction.

SUBFRAME SYSTEM

Subframe and doorframe design limits the amount of additional stresses the door, and its operation, exert on the building structure. Expert engineered one-piece prehung frame allows trouble free installation.

• Subframe Header Size 5" x 5"
• Subframe Vertical Legs 4" x 5"

DOORFRAME SYSTEM

• Typical Doorframe sizes 2"x 4" members on 60" centers.
  • Schweiss has an all-steel doorframe - Schweiss never uses wood on their doorframes!
• Schweiss is the only door manufacturer that specifies double cylinder push tubes 2" x 4".
  • Note: Some companies space hinges with vertical 2" x 3" members every 10'... Lighter weight design!
• Hinge Assembly
  • Hinges wrap around the horizontal doorframe and vertical uprights.
  • Easy weld-on hinge design, only from Schweiss.
• Greasable Hinge
  • Easy to get to from the inside... The Schweiss Advantage! Unlike others who have no zerks or must remove the top rubber gasket which is time consuming, difficult, and likely will never get done!
• Removable Hinge Pins
  • Nice Feature... Some weld them in solid!

PRINTS AND LAYOUT DESIGN OF THE SUBFRAME & DOORFRAME MEMBERS.

• Schweiss Provides
  • All member sizes
  • Exact lengths
  • Door specifications, sheeting and trim measurements for the hydraulic door
• Manuals
  • Step-by-step installation manuals
  • Maintenance and general operation details manuals
  • Safety Placards
• Standard
  • Tractor fittings
  • Wind pins
• Available Options
  • Walk door, windows, insulation, and liner panel kit are all available
  • Remote Controls
  • Battery Back Up
  • Hydraulic doors can be operated by AC/DC

SPHERICAL BEARINGS

Spherical bearings are fixed on each end of the cylinder brackets to allow cylinder maneuverability as it opens or closes the door, preventing stress or damage to cylinder or doorframe. Schweiss Doors introduced the important safety feature of spherical bearings to the hydraulic door world. It wasn't long after that we had followers doing the same, but there are those who haven't caught on yet!

SUPERIOR DESIGN
"WRAPAROUND" HINGE ASSEMBLY

Grease Zerk

Superior Design
Schweiss Doors has developed and designed the strongest hydraulic door hinge in today's market. Superior hinge bracket design that wraps around the subframe header, adding more support.

END HINGE ASSEMBLY

Vertical Subframe Connection Bracket
Schweiss Doors has engineered the strongest hydraulic door hinge on the market today. Superior design, wraparound hinge bracket that attaches to the vertical doorframe members.

Center Hinges
Each vertical upright member on the doorframe has its own hinge attached to it for additional support. Schweiss hinges are typically located 60" on center. More hinges make a stronger, more secure door!

Outside Hinge Assembly
Schweiss designed a unique hinge assembly for each end of the door. They are unlike anything on the market, with multiple robust hinge supports. The end hinge assemblies support the majority of the forces each hydraulic cylinder exerts when raising and lowering the door. All Schweiss doors have double push tubes on each side of the door, included to add additional support to the frame and hinges.

Top Cylinder Mounts

Hydraulic doors raise and lower with two powerful hydraulic cylinders. Each cylinder attaches to a mounting bracket near the top of the door. The top cylinder mounts / brackets carry the entire weight and forces of your hydraulic door, these brackets must be robust and properly built to carry the forces and weights of your hydraulic door. Poorly designed top cylinder brackets may snap / break off, bringing your door down fast; no safety devices will stop your door from falling when the top cylinder brackets break.

The hydraulic cylinders attach to the top cylinder brackets. Those brackets are mounted to the vertical subframe columns on each side of the door's opening. The cylinder rods, pointing downward, while the door is closed, are mounted to the doorframe. While opening the door, the cylinder rods extend downward, pushing on the doorframe's vertical members, moving the door in an outward motion. The cylinders continue to extend outward until the door is fully open.

Vertical Members

The vertical upright members are directly attached to the light gauge horizontal member near the top of the doorframe, with the hinges welded to the top side of that member.

It is common practice for door manufacturers to weld the vertical height halves to a horizontal tubing member of the doorframe and attaching / welding the hydraulic door hinge to the horizontal doorframe member.

Schweiss reserves the right to change design and specifications of our products at anytime without notification © 2019