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   JMadson | Sep 28, 2005 02:09am | #1

   http://www.door-hinges.com/door_pocket.php?start_no=75

   There's a lock on this page made for pocket doors. It might work.

   Joe

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   Sailfish | Sep 28, 2005 05:41pm | #2

   Anyone know of a company that makes a pocket door that is a tad more higher quality than the standard  stuff out there? I don't want a $1K door, but there has to be better stuff out there than the stuff I see at the supply house/big boxes. SOmething with a little character

   I've searched and really can't seem to come up with anything other than the plain Jane (no offense to any members named Jane)

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   WWPD

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   neilpuck | Sep 28, 2005 05:58pm | #3

   http://johnsonhardware.com/

   They have some really good track hardware.  I had gotten hardware from one of the big box stores, and ended up replaceing it and throwing it out.  The door itself can be any slab you wish.  Flat, Paneled, glass.  I framed a wall with 2x6 top and bottom plates, then framed the pocket with 2x3's on the flat.  They make a kit that fits a standard 2x4 wall, but the 'studs' on that to which you apply the drywall is a bit flimsy.  If this doesnt make total sense, I can post some photos to clear up what I did.  Spend the money on the premiu mhardware, its worth it. 

    

   Neil

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   DougU | Sep 29, 2005 06:43am | #4

   Is he looking for the track or a door?

   I thought he wanted a better door.

   Doug

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   IdahoDon | Sep 29, 2005 07:45am | #6

   Just use any door you want--just watch out for the load limit for your track.  Tracks for hollow core doors don't work well overloaded and by the time this is usually figured out it's expensive to fix. 

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   JohnT8 | Sep 30, 2005 12:34am | #7

   Sail, you can just buy pocketdoor kits, thereby turning just about ANY door into a pocket door. 

    jt8

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4. 
   Piffin | Sep 30, 2005 03:02am | #8

   Around here, the hardware and the door are separate items. most of my doors are in the $300-$900 class. We use Johnson hardware as our plain jane and never had a problem with it.
   Sugatsune` is reputed to have better. 

    

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   Dinosaur | Sep 29, 2005 07:28am | #5

   Try this.

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   http://www.leevalley.com/hardware/page.aspx?c=1&p=40641&cat=3,43631,43640

   Dinosaur

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3. 
   Piffin | Sep 30, 2005 03:08am | #9

   The one JMadson shows a link to is only a privacy lock and is never really satisfactory to any of my clients. Baldwin, Ives, and Stanley all have similar versions of it.

   Dinosaur's link is interesting enough for me to have bookmarked it myself, but your installer has to be very carefull on alignement with any of these to have it align the jamb socket and continue to work right.

   my thinking was running to exterior sliding door hardware if any of that might be adaptable.

    

    

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   Renoun | Oct 03, 2005 02:45am | #15

   The Ives privacy lock that fits a standard counterbore is easily altered to prevent the screw head from opening the door. It takes a set of snap ring pliers to open up the mechanism and snap the shaft connecting screw head on the "hall" side of the lock. It wasn't a big deal and only took a couple of minutes. Won't work for every situation but was useful on the Basement I am finishing up now. I also like gluing OSB or ply between the steel studs. Makes the wall a bit more ridgid and gives you somthing to nail to.

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   stinger | Sep 30, 2005 03:31am | #10

   You'll love this.  Hafele has one, but you'll have to prep the leading door stile with a plowed groove from the mortise for the lock, up to the top rail.

   Hafele's mortise lock seems to accept a standard cylinder, and the mechanism drives a bar that is housed in that groove you'll machine, with the bar top end having a latch that goes into a header-mounted strike.

   German hardware engineers dream this stuff up.  Wow!

   Go to their site, and you can see details.  You will also see their exquisite pocket door tracks, trolleys, and fittings.

   Want to do a curved door that will go into a curved pocket?  No problem for these guys.

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   Piffin | Sep 30, 2005 05:00am | #11

   Sounds greata. But I can see why you didn't provide ####link. That site is hard to navigate and slow. I spent a half hour there and couldn't find it. She'll probably have to contact a rep for guidance. 

    

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   stinger | Sep 30, 2005 01:43pm | #14

   Go here http://www.haefele.com/english/products/hardware.htm, follow the online catalogue link, then do guest access, architectural hardware, rolling door fittings.

   I would have clipped pics and pasted them here, but when you are in an Adobe file format you can't.

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   DougU | Sep 30, 2005 05:46am | #13

   I'm with you, Hafele is the Cadillac of hardware, wouldn't consider any other. There isn't much that they dont have.

   Johnson doesnt hold a candle to this stuff.

   Doug

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   Howard_Burt | Sep 30, 2005 05:20am | #12

   I've used and seen a Baldwin unit for sliding and pocket doors half a dozen times over the years. I think Adams-Rite makes something that would work also.

   http://www.baldwinbrassdepot.com/rim.htm

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   Bing187 | Oct 03, 2005 03:40am | #16

   Hook & Eye

   key..............butter knife  ;)