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BUILD YOUR OWN DOOR KIT
Schweiss has designed and figured out a simple way for customers to build their own hydraulic doorframe, but most important, 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 - 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 a strong, more reliable hinge design. 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 without removing the top weather seal. 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 and 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 Kit Door 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 quality 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!
IF YOU HAVE A WELDING SHOP, IT CAN ALSO BE A GREAT WAY TO MAKE EXTRA MONEY!
Build your own door kit
Schweiss has a Kit now available for those who are willing TO build their own door! WE PROVIDE THE PARTS YOU NEED TO do it your self!
Major Components
Schweiss provides all the key components to manufacture your own hydraulic door, Schweiss provides Red Power hydraulic power unit advantage and 2 powerful cylinders with spherical bearings. Schweiss provides all necessary hardware and components, less the steel frame members.
Wraparound... Strong, Quality Hinges
Easy weld-on unibody hinge assemblies, premade from the factory. Every hinge comes with its own grease zerks. Schweiss is the only door company that has easy to get to grease zerks.
Removable Hinge Pins
Schweiss uses heavy-duty 7/8" hardened removable hinge pins.
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
Manufacturing plans from the Schweiss Design Team are included with each hydraulic doorframe. All welding and fabrication of the subframe & doorframe will be done by the customer, under Schweiss direction.
Subframe System
Subframe & Door Frame design limits the amount of additional stresses the door and it's operation exerts on the building structure. Highly engineered one piece pre-hung frame allows a relatively trouble free installation.
• Sub-Frame Header size 5" x 5"
• Sub-Frame Verticle Legs 4" x 5"
Doorframe System
• Typical Door Frame sizes 2"x 4" members on 60" centers.
Schweiss has an all steel door frame!
• Schweiss is the only door manufacturer that specifies double cylinder push tubes 2" x 4"
• Hinge Assembly - Hinges wrap around the horizontal door frame and verticle uprights.
Easy weld on Hinge design Only from Schweiss.
• Greasable Hinges - Easy to get to from the inside... the Schweiss Advantage!
• Removable Hinge Pins - Nice Feature...!
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
• Trusses
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 this important safety feature of Spherical bearings to the hydraulic door world.
Schweiss Red Power Hydraulic Pump - The Best On The Market
FEATURES
- • Remote controls can be added
- • Pump has multiple mounting options standard
- • Built-in emergency lowering is standard on all Schweiss Doors, in case of power outages!
Really a great feature
BACKUP SYSTEMS
- • Drill driven backup to raise or lower the door
- • Tractor backup fittings
- • Battery backup
- • Self-contained aux.
pump and motor
A Well-Thought-Out Design...
Red Power Pumps... "One-of-a-Kind"
They're powerful and smooth operating pumps...
We're talking THE most efficient pumps with standard motors designed ready to lift any size door, at any time, all the time! This system was absolutely designed for quiet, fast, and smooth operation!
THEY'RE QUIET....... This amazingly smooth, quietly operating pump system didn't just happen
on its own! Schweiss Doors knows what you need, so we provide it - every time!
THEY'RE RELIABLE... Schweiss Doors cares about quality. We only offer safe, carefully designed hydraulic pumps that operate at 95% efficiency.
You get it all with the Red Power pump/motor hydraulic system from Schweiss Doors - a compact hydraulic power package complete with motor, pump, all gauges, and so much more - all-in-one neat hydraulic unit.
Red Power hydraulics are shipped as a complete package!
New Sturdy Hinge Design From Schweiss
SUPERIOR DESIGN
"WRAPAROUND" HINGE ASSEMBLY
Grease Zerk
Superior Design
Schweiss Doors has developed and designed a strong hydraulic door hinge for 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 a robust hydraulic door hinge. Heavy-duty 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 strong, 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 and Vertical Members
Top Cylinder Mounts
Hydraulic doors raise and lower with two hydraulic powerfull cylinders. each cylinders attaches to 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 over built to carry the forces and weights of your hydraulic door. Under designed top cylinder brackets, may snap / break off and the door is coming down in a fast way, no safety devices will stop your door from falling when the top cylinder brackets break.
The hydraulic cylinders attach to the top cylinders brackets,that are mounted to the verticle subframe columns on each side of the doors opening with cylinders attached, the cylinders rods are pointing downward and are mounted to the door frame.To operate the door the cylinders rods extend downwards pushing on the door frames verticle members moving the door in an outward motion, the cylinders extend outward until the door is in a open position.
Vertical Members
The verticle upright members are directly attached to the heavy guage horizontal member near the top of the doorframe.
The Evolution of Hydraulic Doors Patent Applied For
New Hinge In Action
Through the entire door opening and closing process there are tremendous forces exerted by each powerful hydraulic cylinder on the doorframe members, hinges, and subframe structure. Schweiss has designed a wraparound hinge that carries those forces through the hinge and onto the door's main subframe structure. This prevents the doorframe members and hinges from being destroyed by the forces exerted by the hydraulic cylinders and the weight of the moving doorframe.
NEW DESIGN
"Wraparound" Hinges & Brackets
The new hinge design with wraparound brackets better connects the top doorframe and vertical members together. It distributes the loads of the doorframe and the forces the cylinders exert on the doorframe and hinges more evenly. This helps to prevents doorframe and hinge failures.
Double Push Tube Vertical Members...
only from Schweiss
Two vertical steel members provide additional strength where the hydraulic cylinders attach to the doorframe and exert forces to raise and lower the door.
Grease Zerks - the easiest way to lubricate hinges. For years customers have been begging for a simpler way to keep the door hinges lubricated, Schweiss' uniquely designed hinges create an easy method to keep your door hinges lubricated at all times! Schweiss uses easy to get to grease zerks on every hinge. Open the door and easily grease each hinge from the inside of your door opening.
Schweiss understands what keeps a business going.
Schweiss is a dependable door company that manufactures a strong, quality product.
When purchasing a hydraulic door, purchase the door from a reputable door company that is there to service and provide you with the correct door
information to keep your door safe and functional for many years!
