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FAAC Welding & Fabrication: The West Palm Beach Owner’s Guide

If the weld on your FAAC gate operator bracket, hinge mount, or drive arm has cracked, we stock and fabricate FAAC-compatible replacements in West Palm Beach and typically install them for $180 to $420 depending on the part and the amount of on-site welding required. Most bracket and mount repairs are completed the same day we arrive, because we carry raw steel stock and the most common FAAC hinge and bracket assemblies on the truck. You’ll usually discover the problem the same way every homeowner does: the gate starts sitting crooked, the operator strains when it cycles, or you spot a hairline crack running through a weld that looked fine for twenty years.

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At Carver Gate Repair West Palm Beach, we’re an independent gate repair company. We’re not affiliated with FAAC, and we don’t claim to be. We do keep FAAC-compatible steel brackets, hinge assemblies, and weld-in reinforcement plates in our shop, and we fabricate parts to match the exact geometry of the unit already bolted to your gate.

Key Takeaways:

• Typical installed price for FAAC welding and fabrication work in West Palm Beach: $180 to $420
• We carry FAAC-compatible brackets and weld-in plates on the truck for same-day repair
• Every weld is backed by a full-year written guarantee
• A written price is quoted and agreed before any torch is lit

Which FAAC Models This Applies To

FAAC swing gate operators, particularly the 400, 412, 750, and 770 series, use a common bracketing system but with two critical differences that trip people up. The first is the post bracket’s setback dimension, which varies between the 400-series and 750-series operators. A bracket drilled for a 750 will sit too far from the post center for a 412, and when you weld it in place anyway, the operator arm binds mid-stroke and burns out the motor. The second gotcha is the taper on the operator’s drive arm clevis. FAAC changed the clevis pin diameter on the 770 series, so a replacement arm from an older unit will not seat correctly without reaming. We measure the bracket setback and the clevis bore before we cut any steel.

We’ve found that most FAAC weld failures in West Palm Beach happen at the post bracket’s lower gusset, not at the primary weld bead. The salty air from the Intracoastal and the daily afternoon humidity work on those gussets for years, and the metal thins from the inside out while the outside still looks structurally decent. That’s why we don’t just re-weld a cracked gusset. We cut the weakened section out and weld in a new plate of the same thickness. Re-welding over corrosion-thinned metal is a temporary fix, and we won’t sell you one.

OEM FAAC brackets are well-made but come at a price, and the lead time can stretch to two weeks or more if a distributor doesn’t stock the specific version. We keep quality aftermarket equivalents in the common setback dimensions, machined from the same gauge cold-rolled steel. For hinge mounts and weld-in reinforcement plates, the steel quality matters more than the brand, and we’ll tell you which option is the right call for your specific model.

Signs Your FAAC Welding & Fabrication Is Failing

• The gate sags visibly at the hinge side and scrapes the ground or the track. This means the hinge weld or the hinge mount itself has started to fail. The gate’s weight shifts, the operator works harder, and the problem compounds every cycle.
• You find fresh rust staining running down from a weld bead. The stain means water is getting between the weld and the parent metal. In West Palm Beach’s humidity, that crack spreads faster than most people expect, and a gate that was fine in January can hinge-tear by August.
• The operator motor runs but the gate hesitates at the same spot every time. A bent or cracked drive arm bracket changes the arm’s geometry just enough to create a bind point. The motor pulls harder, the breaker trips, and eventually the arm or the bracket lets go.
• A weld makes a creaking or clicking sound when the gate moves. That’s the sound of a crack opening and closing under load. A solid weld is silent. Creaking is the steel telling you it’s already parted.
• The post the operator mounts to is leaning or pulling away from the concrete. That points to a failed weld or a broken anchor, not just a tired motor. The fix is often a re-fabricated mount and re-anchoring, not a new operator.

Lonnie Burke’s approach to every one of these starts the same way: figure out what broke first, then fix that. Everything else follows from that. Too many gate calls we run in West Palm Beach are the second or third visit from another company that replaced a motor without checking the bracket it was bolted to.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

For FAAC welding and fabrication work in West Palm Beach, here’s what we typically see:

• Cracked post bracket re-weld with reinforcement plate: $180 to $260
• Full post bracket replacement, fabricated to spec and welded in: $240 to $340
• Drive arm clevis or bracket repair with new steel section: $190 to $300
• Hinge mount re-fabrication (one hinge): $200 to $340
• Complete hinge and bracket rework with gate re-hang: $320 to $420

The range depends on a few things: how badly the existing steel has corroded, whether the gate has to be lifted off its hinges to weld in position, and whether we’re working from a ladder or at ground level. Every job comes with a written price before we start, so the number you agree to is the number you pay. If we find something worse behind the first crack, we stop and re-quote before any additional work happens.

Every weld and fabricated part carries our written one-year guarantee. If it fails inside a year, we come back and fix it. No charge, no argument. That’s the same standard we apply to every repair we make.

DIY or Call Us?

What you can safely do yourself: inspect the welds on your FAAC operator mount, the drive arm, and the hinge points. If you see rust staining, hairline cracks, or metal that looks swollen or flaking, you’ve found where the problem starts. Check the operator bracket bolts with a wrench, not just your eyes. A loosened bolt puts load on the weld and makes a small crack worse every time the gate cycles.

What you shouldn’t do yourself: any welding on a gate that’s still hung and under tension. A swing gate that weighs several hundred pounds becomes dangerous when the hinge or bracket fails during a repair attempt. Cutting a bracket off a loaded gate without properly bracing it can drop the gate on you, and welding on a post that’s still holding gate weight means the weld will be fighting to hold from the moment it cools. That work needs the gate properly braced or lifted, the right settings on the welder, and a post-weld inspection. If you’ve got this kind of damage, call us at (728) 203-2413 and we’ll get it done right in one visit.

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