# Custom Garage Door Components

https://kdisplay.com/products/door-access-systems/garage-door-components

K-Display, a Chicago sheet metal fabricator, makes brackets and mounting plates for sectional garage doors from your part drawings. Self-clinching nuts and studs are installed, and the parts leave bare or powder coated.

## Overview
We make the loose metal parts of a sectional garage door: brackets that carry the hinges and mounting plates that set each hardware position. Brackets and plates are laser cut from aluminum, carbon steel, galvanized, or galvanneal sheet, and the brackets are formed on the press brake. Self-clinching nuts and studs are installed, and the parts leave marked, bare or powder coated. The skins and reinforcement channels of the section are sectional door panel components, and brackets and plates joined into one unit are door subassemblies.

## Process
- Cut the flat blank: We laser cut the brackets and plates flat, holes included.
- Form and fit hardware: We form the brackets on the press brake, then install self-clinching nuts and studs.
- Mask, coat, and mark: We mask the slots and the nut and stud threads, powder coat the parts, and mark each one L or R.

## Typical parts
- Hinge brackets: Angle brackets with a flange that carries the hinge holes.
- Slotted brackets: Angle and offset brackets with slotted holes where a hinge or other hardware needs adjustment.
- Mounting plates: Flat plates laser cut with the hole pattern for the hardware and the section face.

## Design considerations
- Hardware revision: Two hinges of similar size can carry different hole spacing. A bracket cut to the wrong revision fits the section and misses the hinge.
- Mirrored geometry: Left and right brackets are mirror images, with the flange on opposite edges. On the wrong side of the door, the holes miss the section.
- Powder film: Powder adds thickness to every face it reaches, narrowing a slot and filling a thread. The hardware then binds or will not start.

## FAQ
**Does K-Display fabricate garage door components?**
Yes. K-Display builds to customer drawings and reviews the complete manufacturing route around the approved requirements.

**What should the RFQ include?**
Send the current files, revision, material, quantities, interfaces, finish, hardware, assembly, inspection, packaging, and delivery requirements.

**Who owns design and certification?**
K-Display manufactures to the approved package. Product design, engineering, safety, ratings, testing, listing, and certification remain with the explicitly responsible party.

## Related pages
- [Laser Cutting](https://kdisplay.com/capabilities/cutting-forming/laser-cutting)
- [Sheet Metal Forming & Bending](https://kdisplay.com/capabilities/cutting-forming/forming)
- [Hardware Installation](https://kdisplay.com/capabilities/finishing/hardware-installation)
- [Powder Coating](https://kdisplay.com/capabilities/finishing/powder-coating)
- [Door & Access Systems](https://kdisplay.com/products/door-access-systems)
- [Brackets & Plates](https://kdisplay.com/products/brackets-plates)