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voiceknight
07-27-2007, 05:33 PM
Premium storm door with upper and lower pneumatic closers. Lady of the house says that when she comes home and prepares to enter, the storm door quickly slaps her on the shoulder, leg or heel as she releases it to put her key into the front door lock. I asked the storm door company about it, but got a non technical, form letter type of answer. Store where purchased no help either. Had to go to only one piston for now and the door close closes much more gently, but at the end of travel does not latch if the front door is shut. We want to run the setup with two pistons as it was intended to avoid installation of a safety chain, but how can we make it slow to close from fully open to fast to latch at end of travel? Will the fluid type of closer be better than the pneumatic or can we modify the strength of the closers that came with the door (the adjustment screws on each closer have nothing to do with this problem).

TnAndy
07-28-2007, 05:12 PM
I had the same problem with a fairly high dollar Larson I just installed on my own house. With two closers, it not only slapped you in the backside on closing, it was a BEAR to open to begin with !

Same solution.....took one of the closers off...works a LOT better.

Vector
08-04-2007, 06:41 PM
And the same here. I haven't taken the second one off yet. I'm going to try and adjust it a bit more. I expect I'll end up taking it off though.