Garage Door
Isn't it so annoying when your garage door stops working and the manual override won't work and your car is stuck in the garage and it's sunday afternoon so the manufacturers aren't open.
posted by earthkissed | 4:08 pm
3 Comments:
Just throw it into gear and put your foot down hard. :-)
Is there a picture? Unless your openers are very different, I can do this.
Sometimes there's tension on the door and the manual disconnect won't work unless you push down or pull up a little on the door. If you get the disconnect to work and the door is really hard to lift, or tends to rise a bit on it's own, your springs are not properly adjusted.
Your opener shouldn't be old enough to just fail. Does it still have power?
Was it being used alot before it stopped? How hot was it? Many openers have a thermal over-ride that shuts them down when they run alot, or get overheated for some other reason.
Let me know how it turns out. (or if you want more blind advice)
I'm fairly sure it is the tension in the springs. Essentially when you press the button it goes up about an inch and stops. You press it again and it goes back down. When you do the manual disconnect, you just can't shift it at all. This happened maybe a month ago (although thankfully not with the car in the garage) and the guy came sprayed oil on the spring and it worked. So we sprayed some oil where he said this time, but no joy at all:(
yes i can imagine it would just **** everyone off.
i've never had a garage with a door to lock me in, yet.
maybe one day soon i shall own my own garage with a door and we'll see what happens.
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