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Posted by Jeff Wisnia on September 13, 2006, 10:44 pm
kcmhansen@yahoo.com wrote:
> My daughter tried to shut the garage door (automatic door opener) with
> an upright metal bar in the way. The door must have hit the bar pretty
> hard before retracting. The cable on one side ended up looping around
> the tension rod and the garage door was (and is still) stuck crooked
> and lopsided in the open position. In a novice effort to rewind the
> cable, I detached it from the door. Once I did that the entire cable
> fell off. This all happened after business hours and I would really
> like to figure out a way to get my garage door shut tonight and hope I
> can get a repairman to fix it tomorrow. The house is less than 2 years
> old. The spring is not visibly broken. The door does not appear to
> detach from the electric opener, even after pulling the emergency
> disconnect cord several times. Any suggestions for getting the door
> down? Is there a way to reattach the cable to the drum? Any help will
> be greatly appreciated!
>
Back off, leave it alone and call a professional in.
Your post makes it evident that you don't know what you are doing and
you probably also aren't aware that you could suffer a very serious
injury from those torsion springs.
Sorry for your problem, but if you are concerned about the door being
open, you'd be safer sitting up in a chair in the garage all night than
messing with it any more.
Oh, and one more thing, charge your daughter for the repairs, it'll be a
lesson well learned. <G>
Jeff
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Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
"What do you expect from a pig but a grunt?"
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