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| Thread ID: 126429 | 2012-08-27 05:26:00 | Garage Door Opener | rny (6943) | PC World Chat |
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| 1297220 | 2012-08-28 06:56:00 | A friend of mine had a spring mount pull out as the door was being opened. The spring whacked her on the head and she was lucky to survive. I hope you did a good job reattaching your one. Billy T Spring breakage is quite common. You can fit a safety cable up the middle of the spring to stop the broken spring flying about. www.consumeraffairs.govt.nz Many, many thanks for that very good warning, guys. I've got a semi senile old lady at home who (despite being repeatedly told) seems to like to stand beside the damn arms and watch as the door closes. I've been fearing her getting an arm hooked in it, but spring breakage is yet another concern. I'll have to see about fitting a rope down the middle, or sleeves to the springs (like shock absorbers) to stop the buggers flying and dealing a horrible injury to a frail old girl. My own tilt-a-door has been made with one of the hinges off-square, so the bit carrying all the weight and torque when it opens and closes continues to have to twist on its mounting bolts with every opening and closing. The amount of purchase on the original screws was getting very poor so I've replaced them with coach bolts right through the stud. Darn dodgy bit of kit even when they work well, and hit-and-miss to adjust. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1297221 | 2012-08-28 07:42:00 | Great feedback folks, the roller type door has an internal spring arrangement inside the drum that the door rolls onto, so no issues there, and as we do not have internal access to our home via the garage, no security issues. We would double lock the roller door during extended absences, and in the event of opener failure, access is still available via one of two other doors. So looks as if we will go ahead with the installation in the near future. I have the skills to do the installation myself. Thanks for your input and comments. Rny. |
rny (6943) | ||
| 1297222 | 2012-08-28 09:05:00 | When the roller door is down you should secure the roll where it touches the drum about 150mm above the guides. Security is the motor stopping the drum rotating which is defeated if you can just lift the door curtain up and over the rest of the roll. Your opener instructions should mention this. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 1297223 | 2012-08-28 10:24:00 | Yeah, the tilt-a-door on my garage had a fitting on it which was a hefty L shaped bit of metal. THe shape served zero purpose other than to bring the elbow of the bracket low enough to catch the spoiler on my rear hatch when it was open.(snip) On both my garage openers in the old house and our present house, the L shaped bit of metal has a cord attached. If the power fails, you pull on the cord/L shaped piece of metal to disengage the opening mechanism from the door and you can open the door manually. I have had to do this once on our current door when its brain got scrambled and it had to be re-set. I think the L shape is just to give you some extra leverage. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1297224 | 2012-08-28 11:06:00 | A friend of mine had a spring mount pull out as the door was being opened. The spring whacked her on the head and she was lucky to survive. I hope you did a good job reattaching your one.[/url] It would be hard to do it wrong on my door, the bottom of the spring is attached via an adjustable inverted-J bolt hook, and the top loop goes over a horizontal stud with flanges. Tension adjustment is via a nut on the J bolt. The top and bottom loops should be at right-angles to the spring, but the one that broke lay over at a 45-60 degree angle and was hidden from view on the far side of the garage, which is why I never noticed the defect until it snapped off. I might think about putting some securing cables in place, but only to prevent collateral damage if another one breaks. It is a separate garage and we open the door from inside the house, so there is no risk there, and the push-button to close it as I leave the garage is by the door, so I am well away before the springs are tensioned again. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1297225 | 2012-08-28 22:04:00 | Of all the things I've added to my house the garage door opener is one of the best. I would prefer a roller door though, my tilt a door rails are about the perfect height to hit me in the head if I'm not paying attention and have rather nasty ends on them. Because mines a tilt door I had to cut a hole through the roof truss for the opener to fit through, no such issues with a roller. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1297226 | 2012-08-28 22:57:00 | I agree about the value of a garage door opener. SWMBO is particularly enamoured with our current combination of door opener and internal access garage... It makes grocery transfers so much more user friendly, particularly in a howling gale, rain, or snow. @dugimodo - tilt-a-doors are a pain, I agree. However in our present garage we have a multi-panel door (not sure what the proper name is) rather than a roller door, and so does our daughter in Dorkland. We are both very happy with them - would that be a possibility for your purposes? |
John H (8) | ||
| 1297227 | 2012-08-28 23:47:00 | However in our present garage we have a multi-panel door (not sure what the proper name is) Sectional door. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1297228 | 2012-08-28 23:56:00 | Sectional door. Thank you. | John H (8) | ||
| 1297229 | 2012-08-29 00:21:00 | Don't sectional doors still have horizontal rails like tilting doors? I never saw much advantage either way myself. Roller doors on the other hand only take up a small amount of room above the opening and leave the roof space available to be used for storage etc (plus no rails to hit your head on, I'm 197cm tall). | dugimodo (138) | ||
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