Re: Well that was a pleasant little gift--or not.
Local garage door guy stopped by this morning.
I knew in an instant by the look on his face his assessment wasn't going to be good.
The replacement extension springs he bought with him have different style ends on them than my existing springs, so they weren't going to be a direct swap. (I did figure out a work-around, but I'll get back to that in a moment)
He really wasn't even interested in trying to repair the existing system. He advised switching to a torsion spring system, which may be my only temporary alternative.
He checked their inventory and they don't have a 16'X7' door in stock with windows, and windows are a must-have for me, and it's a minimum 2 week wait to order in a custom door.
I'm going to peruse a couple other local builder supply stores (already checked Lowes and Home Depot--they want more just for the door than the door company wants for the door, an opener AND installation!), maybe I can figure out a temporary work-around. I figured out how to attach the new style springs to the old style bracketry, so if I can find 4 suitable springs, I might be able to make that work for now. The biggest hurdle is going to be raising that heavy-assed door.
Oh, fwiw--the torsion conversion is a minimum $300.00 job, not including whatever else they may run into while trying to work around the warped exterior wall.
In the meantime I'm unable to live test anything since I can't open the door to get rid of the exhaust fumes. I'm getting what I can built so when the door's fixed I'll have everything possible ready to test.
Just another day in paradise. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smirk.gif[/img]
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