Looking into the Garage Door Opener Broken parts--the gears should be covered |
Over the course of the week, we came to realize just how much we depend upon the garage door opener, partly because when I had the new garage door installed two years ago, I did not provide a mechanism for manually opening it from outside!
Broken gear cover part |
It wasn't fun.
I was able to repair, not replace, but repair, the garage door opener yesterday. I had ordered the parts and they arrived. Parts were a concern because the Stanley model 6500 garage door opener is not made any more and I was on the secondary market for them. Many of the potentially required repair parts are "no longer stocked." Fortunately, the one that I thought I needed was available!
Completed and repaired |
I knew it was going to be a multi-hour project. And it was.
But it works!
Once I applied the power and adjusted the travel of the garage door, it actually worked!
I was pleased. Chris later told me that she gave the project only about a 50 percent chance of success. I was a bit higher thinking I had a 70 percent chance of success. It really depended upon whether any critical collateral damage had occurred as the gear cover was chattering and flinging itself around the enclosed space.
Weekends are great times to get repairs accomplished. It is just too hard to attempt a multi-hour project after working all day.
-- Bob Doan, Elkridge, MD
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