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Remove/replace garage door bottom roller? Dick Yuknavech 08-09-2005
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Posted by Dick Yuknavech on August 9, 2005, 3:39 pm


Hi all.

I want to remove. for cleaning or replacing, the bottom roller on my
garage door. There is no problem with removing the brackets on the other
rollers, but on a torsion-spring door the bracket for the bottom roller
is hooked to that cable with a grillion pounds of tension in it.

Does anybody know what the trick is?

TIA

--

Dick Yuknavech, amateur DIY guy.


Posted by on August 9, 2005, 12:22 pm


wrote:

>Hi all.
>
>I want to remove. for cleaning or replacing, the bottom roller on my
>garage door. There is no problem with removing the brackets on the other
>rollers, but on a torsion-spring door the bracket for the bottom roller
>is hooked to that cable with a grillion pounds of tension in it.
>
>Does anybody know what the trick is?
>
>TIA


When the door is up the tension should be released. My cables hang
slack when the door is up


Posted by Dick Yuknavech on August 9, 2005, 5:33 pm


On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:22:09 -0400, gfretwell@aol.com wrote in
alt.home.repair:

>wrote:
>>I want to remove. for cleaning or replacing, the bottom roller on my
>>garage door. There is no problem with removing the brackets on the other
>>rollers, but on a torsion-spring door the bracket for the bottom roller
>>is hooked to that cable with a grillion pounds of tension in it.
>>
>>Does anybody know what the trick is?
>>
>>TIA
>
>
>When the door is up the tension should be released. My cables hang
>slack when the door is up

Hmmm. I'll have to meditate on that for a while. My cables are still
under some tension in the full-up position. They're very short at that
time, so it's difficult to guesstimate how heavy the tension is.

I just recalled - a while back I loosened the lock bolts on one of the
pulleys to even out the door. I bet I can do that (on one side at a
time!) to replace those rollers. I'll have to ponder that.

Thanks for the reply.

--
Why put fault tolerance in the OS, when it's already built into the
User?

Dick Yuknavech


Posted by on August 10, 2005, 1:27 am


On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:33:08 GMT, Dick Yuknavech

>On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:22:09 -0400, gfretwell@aol.com wrote in
>alt.home.repair:
>
>>wrote:
>>>I want to remove. for cleaning or replacing, the bottom roller on my
>>>garage door. There is no problem with removing the brackets on the other
>>>rollers, but on a torsion-spring door the bracket for the bottom roller
>>>is hooked to that cable with a grillion pounds of tension in it.
>>>
>>>Does anybody know what the trick is?
>>>
>>>TIA
>>
>>
>>When the door is up the tension should be released. My cables hang
>>slack when the door is up
>
>Hmmm. I'll have to meditate on that for a while. My cables are still
>under some tension in the full-up position. They're very short at that
>time, so it's difficult to guesstimate how heavy the tension is.
>
>I just recalled - a while back I loosened the lock bolts on one of the
>pulleys to even out the door. I bet I can do that (on one side at a
>time!) to replace those rollers. I'll have to ponder that.
>
>Thanks for the reply.


Lift the door further than the regular open position. Jam a 2x4 under
it to keep it up.


Posted by Ken Hall on August 10, 2005, 12:42 am


gfretwell@aol.com wrote:

>wrote:
>
>>Hi all.
>>
>>I want to remove. for cleaning or replacing, the bottom roller on my
>>garage door. There is no problem with removing the brackets on the other
>>rollers, but on a torsion-spring door the bracket for the bottom roller
>>is hooked to that cable with a grillion pounds of tension in it.
>>
>>Does anybody know what the trick is?
>>
>>TIA
>
>
>When the door is up the tension should be released. My cables hang
>slack when the door is up

Sounds like you're talking about extension springs and he's got
torsion springs. Fooling with the tension on torsion springs is
considered dangerous by most people, and not a weekend handyman job.

Ken


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