As mentioned back in a build log post on 15 Dec 2014 the two sliding doors on my hangar don't slide very well. The original builder of the hangar, Wayne Christians, dropped in recently for a visit while passing through Mackenzie on a camping trip and entertained me with stories about the good old days, the original flying fraternity and the ins and outs of my hangar's construction. He stated honestly that he never built a hangar door again like the ones on this building. Each 20' wide door rides on two small steel wheels guided along the ground by an inverted angle iron. The wheels live spend their lives down in the dirt, snow, ice, water and salt. As a result the roller bearings in my wheels have seized up. Over the past two weekends I have managed to jack up each door a little to swing the wheels out off the tracks, jack hammered out the concrete sills at each wheel location and managed to unbolt and remove each little wheel. I then had a local machine shop push out the seized bearings and replace them with bronze bushings to ride on the new 'axle's made of 1/2" dia x 2 1/2" long hex head bolts. Installed with lots of grease (I should add a greasing fitting later) the little wheels are back in service, running smoothly like they first did when Wayne installed them back in 1977.
