it very well could have. Ours broke with lots of noise one night, hadn't moved it in hours. Loud muffled boom, couldn't figure out what it was until the garage door opener wouldn't work the next morning.
A 2-wide wood door is very, very heavy......
Garage Door Spring Needed
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A 2-wide wood door is very, very heavy......
Those springs have alot of winds on them, it wouldnt surprise me if it did rip his arm off...but the thing that gets me is how the heck does he wind them now???quote:
Originally posted by Pablo:
Amazing! I'm not chuckling or anything - how the heck? I'm inspired
Work accident? He may have some good advice!
Also, if he did just replace one of your springs on a 2 car garage door(which should have 2 springs)...then he ripped you off(even though it was cheaper than 2)...the reason being as that these springs have the same life cycle(like car headlights)...basiclly, the other one is going to fail any day now...and the new one, when he replaces the other old one, has to be unwound, which will cause it to lose 60% of its strength...its a vicsous cycle of replacing one spring at a time...to do the job propperly it requires replacing both springs at the sametime...this will also balance the door propperly, keeping it from walking to one side as well.
Not much to add to this, other than that I've had one let go too, a couple years ago. We live relatively near the local airport, though the pattern does not usually bring air traffic our way. When the spring went, I thought a plane had broken up heavy pieces were falling from the sky. Unforgettable (though I didn't have to toss my shorts...).
I don't take credit for being much of an "instinctive engineer" but these things worried me the first time I took a good look at one (and read the warnings). There's a whole lot of energy stored in those springs. When something goes wrong, it's released in a hurry, through a potentially lethal mechanism. I was more than happy to let a trained pro replace our springs.
I don't take credit for being much of an "instinctive engineer" but these things worried me the first time I took a good look at one (and read the warnings). There's a whole lot of energy stored in those springs. When something goes wrong, it's released in a hurry, through a potentially lethal mechanism. I was more than happy to let a trained pro replace our springs.
I thought the sterotypical pirate has a wooden leg, not a missing arm?
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Arr, laddie,let me tell you, for every Long John Silver there's one Captain Hook. Maybe you're thinking of Captain Ahab anyway, and he was no pirate!
I learned the hard way. Went out one morning to find the spring hanging out of the windshield where it lodged itself during flight. Kinda looked like a fishing pole stuck in a holder on a sea going boat...
All 4 springs got retaining cables after that..
Ours are the coil springs, and I oil them with gear oil once in awhile in an attempt to minimize corrosion. Highly stressed parts usually don't handle corrosion very well.
In a bad mood the other day I opened the one of the doors with a bit too much force and it jumped the tracks (I've unplugged and unhooked the Genie motors as they're way too noisy), leaving a couple of hinged joints hanging free. Needless to say that made my mood better :^) Actually it did me good wrestling with it and getting it hooked back up, rewinding the cable and all.
In a bad mood the other day I opened the one of the doors with a bit too much force and it jumped the tracks (I've unplugged and unhooked the Genie motors as they're way too noisy), leaving a couple of hinged joints hanging free. Needless to say that made my mood better :^) Actually it did me good wrestling with it and getting it hooked back up, rewinding the cable and all.
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