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We got some slide wheels that are really hard to pull. If you listen for the bearing; hear
that [inaudible: 00:25] sound. That's a sound indicating the bearings are bad on the wheels.
What we need to do is lift the whole door up and pull it out from the bottom; sweep
it out from the bottom. I'm going to lift the door up, pull it out, and then walk it
down from the top.
Here's the wheels; you can see that they're pretty greasy. You want to avoid getting that
grease on the carpet. Here are my new wheels. These are nylon wheels and they work really
well, much better, actually, than these metal wheels. You would think the metal wheels would
do better, but it just seems that these nylon wheels are so much easier. These aren't the
worst I've seen, but we're going to replace them. Here we go.
On this side it's really straightforward. First, you want to go ahead on this one, tighten.
I like to tighten mine to about here; that seems to work really well for me. This set
screw raises or lowers the door and allows you to pivot the door also. I just get mine
preset depending on the door. If the door had given me a harder time to come out, I
might actually lower the wheel first to make it easier to get the door back in, but this
one was pretty straightforward. You want to get them pretty much equal. They're already
there.
On this side it's pretty straightforward. You can see that the key anchor's in here.
I just pop these out with a screwdriver, like so. You just got to get them to meet there,
give the screwdriver a little push, pop it right out. Again, try to avoid getting this
stuff on the carpet. I'm going to take it and put it in the bag. On the other side what
we have to do is remove this foot pin. It's got a set screw underneath it. We just need
to remove this bottom screw so that way it's out of the way. The key on this side, it gets
bent up inside; that's the way this one gets anchored into place. You really want to have
these anchored so they're not moving around. Again, we're going to take the screwdriver
and just give it a little push to pop the wheel out. I'm going to grab this with my
pliers, pull it out, and put it in a bag so I don't get it all over anything. There we
go. You can see how the key portion is bent up inside there. Let me show you that. Put
this in a bag.
Here's our new one. What you do is insert it up into the key just past the set screw,
and then bend it into place. I usually just give this a little tap with my screwdriver
to get it to anchor. We want the foot up above the trim. Take your foot bolt, put that back
in there; it just slides up. We're going to set our set screw in place. This should anchor
just under the wheel. That'll lock the wheel into place. If we need to adjust the wheel,
we'll have to remove that pin once it's in place. I don't want to tighten it down too
tight, I want to tighten it down enough that I'll be able to slip it off and up if I need
to. We're going to insert the other wheel, like so. It's got its little key that it gets
keyed into, get pushed into. Push it into place. Pretty straightforward. We're ready
to put our door back up.
What you do is set it at an angle close to your door so that you'll clear your blinds
and such. Up top, what we need to do is lift it up into the track and swing the bottom
wheels in. We're going to lift it up on both sides, and then we're going to swing the bottom
wheels in and drop it into the track. Up top, what we want to make sure is that no part
of the door is coming out, that everything is staying inside there, along the whole run
of closing the door. The next thing you want to check is that we have no gaps along the
door when it's closed. Then go ahead and check if our latch works properly, which it does.
We're going to check for smoothness of operation. Little bit rough up top; it could just use
some lube up here.
Here's our door latch. Everything latches good. We're all set. Good to go, new patio
wheels.