Garage roll up door

[82k5]

Anybody have any advice or knowledge on how to make a garage roll up door, like the one's used in shops ?

[Harry P.]

I assume you mean an operating door?

The tracks can be made of strip styrene or brass, and the hangers that attach the tracks to the ceiling can be made with "L" channel. I'd paint those parts aluminum.

The door sections can be made of 1/8" styrene sheet, and the hinges that connect each panel can be found in the dollhouse section of Hobby Lobby or a similar crafts store. They have tiny brass hinges that could easily work as garage door panel hinges. The rollers that ride in the tracks could be made several ways. One way would be to use slices of round styrene rod as the roller wheels. Drill a small hole in the center of each "roller" and use either a sewing pin with a flat head or a tiny brad as the roller wheel axle. Those axles can be glued into corresponding holes you drill into the edges of the door panel sections. If you want even more detail you could cut windows into the upper door panels and use clear acetate sheet as windows, make scale handles out of wire, add a half round strip of styrene, painted flat black, as a threshold gasket, etc.

Look at the parts of a real door. All the components are pretty easy to recreate in scale.

[82k5]

I assume you mean an operating door?

The tracks can be made of strip styrene or brass, and the hangers that attach the tracks to the ceiling can be made with "L" channel. I'd paint those parts aluminum.

The door sections can be made of 1/8" styrene sheet, and the hinges that connect each panel can be found in the dollhouse section of Hobby Lobby or a similar crafts store. They have tiny brass hinges that could easily work as garage door panel hinges. The rollers that ride in the tracks could be made several ways. One way would be to use slices of round styrene rod as the roller wheels. Drill a small hole in the center of each "roller" and use either a sewing pin with a flat head or a tiny brad as the roller wheel axle. Those axles can be glued into corresponding holes you drill into the edges of the door panel sections. If you want even more detail you could cut windows into the upper door panels and use clear acetate sheet as windows, make scale handles out of wire, add a half round strip of styrene, painted flat black, as a threshold gasket, etc.

Look at the parts of a real door. All the components are pretty easy to recreate in scale.

The door portion is done, what I'm having an issue with is the placement and type of roller used to attach the door to overhead. The pin advice is appreciated I'll have to try that on another dio. Thanks

[mikelo]

For making the hinges on the door, I have a friend who made a Ryder moving van and took some fairly thick strips of plastic, cut 2 notches running from top to bottom, then super glued fishing line into the notches, let it dry and they work great.

Mike