Stainless Steel Gate for Workshop
Introduction: Stainless Steel Gate for Workshop
Hi everyone, This Instructables is very close to me as it's my first project for my new workshop. Recently with the help of family I got land and constructed a workshop on it and it requires an entry gate since it was covered from all three sides with other buildings. The one side needs to have a door and I wanted that door to look best as possible as I can and I wanted to make it more complex. Being a stainless adding these details is going to increase the time if I kept on adding details and that is because each weld needs to grind out to make it flush with the rest of the surface. This build definitely tests my skills to the ultimate level. To be honest, being a Stainless guy I made a lot of stainless build in the past with a stick welder but I think this one isn't possible with that. For inspiration, I saw many pictures and chose a stainless steel weaving pattern and a Japanese-style box design for that. For the rest of the design it's pretty much normal but the box design and the weave pattern is the difficult one. Overall said this is definitely a complex project for me but I think it's definitely worthy enough for the setup. Definitely, there are so many things which I learned from other YouTubers and I mentioned some of them here like Pacific tig arc welding, welding tips and tricks, the fabrication series, I highly recommend you guys to go visit their channel and there is a ton of good information you can learn from these guys. If you guys have any suggestions or any critic please leave them down in the description section.
Supplies
Tools and Materials used
Material used.
For this particular door build, I want all the material to be made out of stainless steel and I am definitely been aware that being such a build there is going to be a lot of thermal warpage in it.
1. 11⁄2" X 3" rectangular tubing for the mainframe
2. 1" X 2" rectangular tubing for middle braces and all the main structures for the inner design.
3. 1" square tubing for the area around the sheet has been installed.
4. 1⁄2" square tube for small details inside the gate.
5. 3⁄4" X 1⁄2" square tube for the Japanese square type design.
6. 1" round section
7. 18 gauge matte finish stainless steel sheet.
8. 16mm rod is used to anchor the gate in the floor with other accessories which come up in a set of two.
9. Big heavy-duty door hinges for both the top and bottom sections. Both have different designs.
10. Lock to lock the door when nobody is in the shop. The size of the gate is 8ft X 7ft. To make the door easier to swing it's made in two sections. 787
4ft X 7ft and 4ft X 7ft.
Tools needed.
Well to be honest it would be good to have as many tools as possible as you can for metalworking if you wanted to build all of the things from scratch. But definitely, there are some basic tools that You need to have or I used during this build.
1. Angle grinder
2. Chop saw
3. Die grinder
4. Cut off disk
5. Grinding disk
6. Flap disk
7. Scotch Brite wheel
8. Buffing wheels
9. Polishing compound
10. Die grinder wheels
11. Pickling agent
12. Tig welding set
13. Welding glove
14. Welding helmet
15. Tig welding rod
All the material used for the door is belongs to 304 grade which is ideal for external use. There might be some tools that I may forget during this write-up but as I said earlier, whatever tool makes your work faster and easier to use.
Step 1: ​Material Cutting
The first thing to do is to cut down some 3" X 11⁄2" rectangular sections for the main frame of the doors. The process of cutting is done on the chop saw. It's definitely seems that chop saw make the work easier but these cutting saw are not good at all and never giver you perpendicular cuts. Since the joint is a miter joint that's why I need to cut down 4 lengths of 7ft long and 4 lengths of 4ft long. There are some horizontal sections needs to be installed In the inside area of the frame having length 31⁄2' long, and there are 4 of these cuts down. Then there are 4 of vertical pipe section needs to be installed in the inside area where are doors going to be installed. Always make sure in metal working to keep your cuts as precise as possible. 220