{"id":1790,"date":"2014-07-21T04:57:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T10:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2015-02-08T08:25:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:25:52","slug":"5-3-6-door-pin-sleeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/5-3-6-door-pin-sleeves\/","title":{"rendered":"5.3.6 Door Pin Sleeves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"29\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 13 of 16 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/05-doors-windows\/\">05 - Doors \/ Windows<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The sleeves that the door pins go into have been something that I&#8217;ve been thinking about for a while. They are not only ugly, but they have a tendency to catch clothing when entering and exiting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-05-23-IMG_20120523_092117-Large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1791\" alt=\"2012-05-23 IMG_20120523_092117 (Large)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2012-05-23-IMG_20120523_092117-Large-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some builders have made aluminum plates to cover them. I tried that, but getting the hole drilled at the compound angle was proving difficult.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to try a somewhat artistic approach (even though that is definitely not my forte).<\/p>\n<p>I mixed up some epoxy with cabosil and a little milled fiber and moulded around the sleeve. When it cured, I sanded it and then added another layer. Then sanded, filled, sanded and painted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-07-21-IMG_20140721_105914595-Large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1793\" alt=\"2014-07-21 IMG_20140721_105914595 (Large)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/2014-07-21-IMG_20140721_105914595-Large-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not sure how well it&#8217;ll hold up, but I haven&#8217;t got my shirt torn since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"29\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 13 of 16 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/05-doors-windows\/\">05 - Doors \/ Windows<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The sleeves that the door pins go into have been something that I&#8217;ve been thinking about for a while. They are not only ugly, but they have a tendency to catch clothing when entering and exiting. Some builders have made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/5-3-6-door-pin-sleeves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"series":[29],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-46","series-05-doors-windows"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3103,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/3103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}