I once made a service call to Automatic Door in Chicago. They had a
newspaper article on their bulletin board about some unlucky guy who
came home to find his garage door spring unwound. It seems he decided to
fix it himself and while up on the ladder he got his necktie (another
good reason to ban them) caught in the spring as it wound itself up. His
wife tried to cut him down with scissors but was too late..

Dave Platt wrote:

In article ,
**THE-RFI-EMI-GUY** wrote:



Assuming the neighbors problems are coincidental, check the
counterbalance spring for the door. They wear out or break and the
opener does not have enough power to work on irs own. By the way this is
not a DIY project because of safety concerns with the springs and the
repairs can be about $300.



Good point!

I recently had a spring break in our 1960-vintage rolling door
setup... the door wouldn't even start to roll up with only one spring
out of two providing proper tension.

The repairman who came out and replaced it, said that he gets a
significant percentage of his business from people who first tried to
do the repair themselves... and decided to call him after they got out
of the hospital. The most common injury seems to be a broken
collar-bone. Those springs are under a *lot* of tension.




--
Joe Leikhim K4SAT
"The RFI-EMI-GUY"©

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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