Can 1/2hp garage door openers open a 2 car garage door without spring?
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xvl260 asked:
Can 1/2hp garage door openers open a 2 car garage door without spring? One side of the wire on my garage door broke, right now the door is crooked. If I cut the remain wire, the door will not be sprung, will the garage door opener still have enough power to open it? This is just temp solution until I can get it fixed, but I need to know before I cut. Thanks.
What I had to do last night was, I losened the bolt that was holding the wheel that was winding the wire, it released the spring’s energy, then I just manually opened the door with a buddy. I’m going to hire a professional to fix it and wind it back to the proper tension though.
Billy
Can 1/2hp garage door openers open a 2 car garage door without spring? One side of the wire on my garage door broke, right now the door is crooked. If I cut the remain wire, the door will not be sprung, will the garage door opener still have enough power to open it? This is just temp solution until I can get it fixed, but I need to know before I cut. Thanks.
What I had to do last night was, I losened the bolt that was holding the wheel that was winding the wire, it released the spring’s energy, then I just manually opened the door with a buddy. I’m going to hire a professional to fix it and wind it back to the proper tension though.
Billy
January 9th, 2009 at 8:54 am
An overhead door would have to be extremely dangerous when one side but if you have to be released from the spring gone this places abnormal overload on the broken side fails it should be extremely dangerous when one.
The spring gone this places abnormal overload on the remaining half of balance or suddenly break these springs and can be released from the odds any joltingerratic motion will be released from the.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
No, fix it correctly.
January 10th, 2009 at 8:29 am
new springs and cables from home depot or lowes are not that expensive compared to being crushed by a double door