Sectional Garage Door Brackets Explained
Bottom Lifting Bracket - Double and single doors
Bottom brackets are an essential element in sectional garage doors design that creates a secure mount for torsion cables. Multiple mounting holes enables versatile installation on many different garage doors.
Center Bearing Plate
The center bearing plate holds the shaft on a torsion assembly garage door so it doesn’t bow in the center and has pre-cut slots for mounting to the header jamb. Center Bearing Support Plates also have two pre-cut slots for attaching the spring cones so they stay in place while being wound.
Flag Bracket
Garage Door Flag Brackets install at the top of the left and right door jambs where the vertical and horizontal garage door tracks meet. Once the brackets are installed they provide and maintain important horizontal-vertical axis stability in garage door opening and closing. These bracing hardware components are for securing and stabilizing overhead door tracks to each other and to the door frame. Each flag is equipped with multiple faster slots to fit most garage door installations.
End Bearing Plate
The end bearing plates install on either end of a garage door torsion shaft to provide structural support. Flange design allows them to be bolted to the horizontal track angle and flag bracket for extra secure mounting.
Spring Tension Anchor Brackets
Top Roller Bracket
Top Roller Bracket installs on the top panel of a garage door and holds the left & right top rollers in place. They are designed to make sure the door closes without any gaps.
Jamb Brackets
These brackets mount securely to the left or right jamb of a garage door installation, Jamb Brackets come in a variety of lengths and are measured by the longest leg of the L shape.
Garage Door Hinges
Designed to connect the individual panels of a Sectional Garage Door, allowing the door to move smoothly and securely. Each hinge is designed to fit at a specific place on the door and is numbered so that if a replacement is required, the correct hinge can easily be ordered. These hinges are typically made of durable materials and are designed to withstand the weight and movement of the garage door.
Steel hinges are suitable for both steel and wooden Sectional Garage Doors.
Composite hinges require no lubrication or maintenance and operate extremely quietly. They are suitable for steel or wooden garage doors.
Most of the time, all of the hinges in the center of the door are #1 hinges. The hinges on the edge of the garage door that hold the rollers are numbered.
#1 hinges - between the bottom and the second panel
#2 hinges - between the second and third panel
#3 hinges - between the third panel and fourth panel
#4 hinges - between the fourth panel and fifth panel
