Full barrel opening mechanism question

[dzavracky]

As others said here, disconnect the mechanism from each door and make sure they both close, make sure the disconnected mechanism isn't coming into contact of the inside of each door and causing the problem, but from the looks of things, you should be able to swing the arms out of the way so both doors can be closed up to their respective "STOPS"

Now that each door can be operated independently, place strips of wide masking tape on the bottom and close that door.
Take a Sharpie and mark the edge of the bottom door in its fully closed position. (you may want to add some masking tape to the door itself as not to get ink on the door)
Do the same to the other side.

The marked edge of both doors will now give you a reference point where the arms should attach themselves.
This will also enable you to operate the mechanism by hand where you can use your reference lines to see if the teeth are not meshed properly and/or of the arms them selves are hitting each other if they are bent.

If someone mounted the ends to the doors in too high or too low of a position because the holes were stripped out, this may cause the arms to come in contact with each other.

With your reference lines there, they should point out where the fault is.

Thanks Jeff. I will give it a shot over the weekend.

David