Retrofit Hall Header Kits

Service scenarios involving replacement of Otis formed integral header tracks shown below

1. 1. Rusted formed integral header tracks
2. • Replace with the retrofit header, track and hardware set.
   • Consider ordering new door panels and track and hanger sets as well
   • Review the condition of your sill support and struts. If the header is rusted, those items may be as well.

1. 2. Adding a new entrance or gutting an existing and desiring to replace everything where an offset integral set up was previously
2. • Do not order 389P10 hangers
   • You will need to order a modified track and hanger set and a retrofit header and hardware
   • Consider ordering locks with spirators, a folding door restrictor, door return bumpers, a sill support, struts and a sill

1. 3. Replacing tracks and hangers
2. • If you have offset integral hangers, they are welded into the original door panels and will remain with those doors
   • Consider ordering our entrance refresh kits, one per entrance, and replacing the formed integral header tracks with the new retrofit headers and applied tracks per landing. These will work with the offset integral hanger door panels you may choose to retain

1. 4. If your existing header is an early type with an applied bar track and not formed integral...
   • We can still offer a new header and track retrofit. It is more practical since machining a single piece of bar track gets expensive

• 5. The retrofit headers and applied track sets with hardware can also be applied to non-Otis entrances, if...
  • There is space available
  • You are prepared to also install Otis tracks, hangers, and locks onto brand new doors

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