Gate pivot

The one I saw seemed to just have a treated tube and a welded on washer on the gate to stop it going all the way down, but I suspect there are endless variations on that!

PS, the local yobs had removed the gate and tossed it onto the flat roof. this was back in the 70s, so they have been around for a while!

Brian

Brian

thanks. The gate is so heavy it is quite difficult to lift so I think I will try to make something that can be replaced from time to time. A pile of big washers - which would make a bit of a tube, would do it. At the very least we can afford 5 2 pence pieces a year if that is what make it work. I always assume there was a right way top do things, even though no one can now remember what it was.

Geoff

If you have some pre-1992 coins I think I'd use them - since later coins are copper plated steel & should rust away quite quickly once the plating is ground off.

Trouble is copper is quite soft, it will wear very quickly. Packet of

A ball bearing would probably work if he can pinch one off the school kids.

Hmm, incidentally, I meant the gates have been around a while, not the yobs, they would be rather old now, the yobs and the gate. Every wish you had nver started writing?

Brian

Quite a while ago I lifted my front gate of its pivots, put a couple of ball races on the pivots, then lowered the gate back on to them, to lift a fallen gate by the thickness of the ball races.

To lift the gate I used my car's jack.

Interesting - where might I look at such ball-races?

I can't remember where i got mine, sorry.

Old car wheel bearings? Ebay?

Any car parts or biker parts or take an old scrapper apart.