today we're going to fix a gate spring I bought two of them and the problem is
this one here when I went to try and install it it just fell apart so if you take a look
on this one of course you could see where it says you know this is direction of the
turn and here it is here so it is stamped you know for the top and when you get down
to the bottom here this just turns now you can see that this is the type of type of
connection that they have here that's almost like a press fit and you know it's very substandard I'm
gonna fix that I'm gonna weld this right here and if you take a look at the top here they have this
great big giant nut and the whole idea behind this is they give you a little piece of flat
stock to stick in here so it doesn't unwind and that's how most of the styles are made and this
one here I think is a very poor design because of this so I'm going to weld this up and then
I'm going to do something to the top here that's much different because the spot that I was trying
to put this in had very poor access and as I tighten it up with my wrench and you could see
you know you can't go on with a big wrench like this because you can't fit the pin in so you have
to actually just use an open wrench and what I had to do was put this on the backside here to hold
it from stopping from unwinding and that's when the bottom just let loose after it was already
installed so I'm gonna show some improvements here and something that you've probably never
seen before when it comes to the top which i think is a better design let's get to it right now and
let's start doing some welding okay so there's the spot you see I've bared it all here I did have to
bear the backside of this just to get a ground for my ground plant so I figure if we just put
a TOC right here that'll be good enough a lot better than what it was so let's just do that
okay there we go right there so let's get on to the topside and see what I'm gonna
do there okay you guys can see exactly what I'm doing now I just put a nut on
the top and I bared it all down now I'm just going to tack the nut on the sides
and I picked one that had a flange on the bottom to make it easier for welding
okay I'm going to tack it over here next and then I'll bring you back when I weld
on the inside okay this time I'm just going to have a plunge rate
down through the center and just bring it up and hopefully a graph
there you go right there okay let's take a look at up close and see how I did here and you could
see on this one here that's going to hold it down there no problem now let's take a look at
the other end and guys what do you think of that now of course I had to actually get the grinder
out just take some of the weld slag off the side of the nut there but you can see this will fit
on here now I can put an extension on and I can still take the key that comes with it that goes
in the back side to stop it from unwinding so I'm gonna paint this up and let's put it on my
gate and I'll show you that I'm using this in the opposite way that it was designed for but
I'm doing it for specific purpose okay pretty windy out here but I'll show you how this is
supposed to go supposed to keep winding it up and then put the key back in right well you can't do
it with a ratchet you have to actually go with a wrench because you have to hold it
so I'll get it all installed and then I'll show you what it looks like after okay so
when you're finished when all I did was as I move this ahead I put a screwdriver in the
backside just to hold it and then when I got enough tension you just put this plate in the
back and what it does it stops the nut from going backwards you could see how it's jammed
in there so let's take a look and let's see how the gate swings now but I want to show you most
times you're going to see people put these gates automatic return Springs on the back
side of their gate let's take a look and see what I've done well if you walk up to my gate you can
hardly even see that there's a spring there yeah there it is right in there compared to
on the backside I like it in that position a lot better and it seems to work great so
let's see how it works when you unlatch the gate and it goes by itself okay here we are
there it goes right there okay so I know a lot of you guys are thinking all in second I thought
them Springs were meant to keep your gate closed not keep it open well you know what I don't need
a spring to keep the gate closed I design mine for the idea of having the the spring hidden
in the corner there as you close the gate you can already even see it and for me the idea is
a couple of times guess what you go out there you open up the gate and the gate would close
behind you if you have the spring on the other side and in my experience just me and the wife
and my daughter here we don't need to have the gate pulled behind us all the time and you know
what think about it you'll open it up and the gate opens for you common sense if you want to
keep the gate closed you know it's open right you just go behind it and close it and I found
that the latch if you notice the kind of latch I had on the top there twice we've come out in
the backyard guess what happened the gate was loose it was open and I thought well somebody
was in the backyard what happened there a couple of times yes that latch has no tension on it and
the wind would just blow it back and forth back and forth back and forth and it would just open
up on its own and I thought that's awful strange so we decided do we want to have the gate open
or have the gate closed when you attach the spring so if you want the gate to be closed
all the time so when you go inside it's pushing against you well you can put it on the inside
you put it on the outside and it will open the gate for you and that's what we wanted open the
gate for us and as we put our hand on top and you just pull the lever yeah there's now there's some
tension there and it'll keep the gate closed so thanks for joining me here today I hope you like
this I guess a little bit of an experience and of gate Springs and I've got this one here and
you know the reason why I bought two is a lot of times you want quite a bit of spring power
so you can add two so if you wanted to put two on you could and it will actually make a lot of
force to either open it or close it so thanks for driving me here today if you haven't seen
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