How To Disassemble A Panel Door

This comes from wood central.

How to disassemble a panel door.

Hide glue can be de activated on joints that are still stuck by saturating the joint with alcohol. After several minutes the joint will be loose enough to pull apart. I have two kitchen cabinet doors that need to be cut shorter by several inches to accommodate the new microwave. Pull the swab out and slide the swab in between the masking tape and the exposed door panel.

The doors appear to be typical mass production with a router frame joint i don t know what this kind of joint is called see attached pictures. Place the door on a flat surface to begin working on the panel. Square up the door if necessary and clamp the stiles against the rails with bar clamps under light pressure then gently tap in the tenon wedges to tighten the tenons in their mortises being careful not to crush the fibers in the tenons. Step 2 remove any fasteners in the corner of the panel with a small pry par.

Squirt some alcohol i use denatured alcohol along the edges of the joint and it will wick in by capillary action. How to dissassemble a frame and panel cabinet door. Unscrew the top hinge first and remove the lower hinge with an assistant holding the door in place. Undo the tension springs from the turnbuckles holding them in place.

Use a scrap 2 by 4. There s a lot of tension in the springs so be. Use a rubber mallet to carefully bang out the corner. Raise the garage door and disconnect the power to the automatic garage door opener if applicable.

Dip the cotton swab into the adhesive and slide it into the seam. Carefully lower the door.