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#1 · (Edited)
I want to install a diagonal brace on my fence gate. I'm not very good at determining angles. The two corners that it will meet are 90 degrees inside. What type of tool or method can I use to to mark this on my brace?
 
#2 ·
If it's truly vertical why are there angles, are you putting in a cross brace?

You could always hold the board up to the gate and transpose some marks on it, then use a framing square to ensure a 90* cut based on your (2) outside marks.

Mark
 
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I want to install a diagonal brace on my fence gate. I'm not very good at determining angles. The two corners that it will meet are 90 degrees inside. What type of tool or method can I use to to mark this on my brace?
Can you post a photo of the gate? How it's cut and installed depends on the gate's conctruction. Sometimes you inset it into the frame, sometimes you attach it to the frame.
Sometimes you can use a turnbuckle with an adjustable nut to keep it square.
 
#12 ·
Easy to use a bevel guage and a protractor. Open the bevel guage to the 2 sides and transfere it to a piece of paper. Take the protractor and measue the angle.
If the frame of the gate is a rectangle, the brace will go corner to corner, so you would need to know the angle corner to corner and the distance between them to cut a snug brace.
Pull a line corner to corner and bevel guage the side to string angle(measure the alternate interior angles) on both sides(they should be the same). Then measure the distance, corner to corner.
 
#36 ·
kwikfishron said:
I was taught why waste even a one second of time thinking about it when you can just scribe it and be done.
What if the gate were sagging and/or out of square? Then that simple, non-time-wasting slap-it and scribe-it solution would look hack because no thought was put into it.

(Is that a strong debate point? I never took debate in school)
 
#37 ·
What if the gate were sagging and/or out of square? Then that simple, non-time-wasting slap-it and scribe-it solution would look hack because no thought was put into it.

(Is that a strong debate point? I never took debate in school)
You would square the gate before you designed the cross brace.
 
#38 ·
This is what happens when the OP doesn't give enough information. If it's the gate he posted the picture of....a 2 year old can just scribe the brace. He can take it off and scribe it. The OP came back and said something about other gates that could be difficult to do. If those gates are built and hung already....he can just take them down...all this other debating is useless.....
 
#48 ·
I mounted the kit, adjusted to the maximum and the turnbuckle tops out before the gate is level - about half an inch too short. Way too much cable left over and if I had more distance it would be fine. How does that not make sense?
If you get the correct size mechanism for the gate size you have, it will work.
Sometimes you can modify a mechanism so it fits correctly.
Sometimes, things are so complicated that they have no solution.
 
#50 ·
I've got no formal carpentry training and I came here to ask questions and learn not be insulted by people who have the expertise. This thread has gone too far. Obviously it's a simple stick gate with a handful of options to reinforce it. I need to build some larger full size fence gates so I'm trying to learn by making mistakes on my small temporary deck gate.
 
#52 ·
You did this to yourself.

Your first post.

I want to install a diagonal brace on my fence gate. I'm not very good at determining angles. The two corners that it will meet are 90 degrees inside. What type of tool or method can I use to to mark this on my brace?
You were asked 1000x for measurements so that we could help you and give you some answered. I will ask you again in English. How come you didn't give the measurements of the gate? Can you give me one good reason why you haven't?

What is so difficult about that question>? Do you own a tape? If so can you read the tape to give measurements??????
 
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