History
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 at 11:57 am by Dan Musick

Harold was my former employer for more than 15 years as I raised my family.
He mentored me in the door business. He was a friend. He will be missed.
More information can be found at the Legacy Website.…
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Friday, April 6th, 2018 at 4:36 pm by Dan Musick
This morning I heard that the unemployment rate was around four percent, which is about as low as I can ever remember it being. Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal reported that there is a shortage of workers in the Midwest.…
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Saturday, March 31st, 2018 at 10:11 am by Dan Musick
Two of the greatest events in history:
Good Friday – Jesus died to forgive the sins of all who would believe in Him!
“For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.…
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Friday, November 17th, 2017 at 8:26 pm by Dan Musick
The year was 1997. The Internet was just coming of age. Interest in the profit potential of web-based businesses was reminiscent of the gold rush in the last century. It was the year that my 12 year old son, Erich, posted our first web page.…
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Friday, November 3rd, 2017 at 5:25 pm by Dan Musick
Many years ago I was replacing a gear on a Chamberlain/Liftmaster/Sears opener. I had learned from previous jobs that the top neck of the drive shaft often wears from dried grease. I put two and two together and I concluded that if I replaced just the gear, I would probably need to return in a few months to replace the drive shaft and another gear because it is not possible to purchase just the drive shaft.…
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Friday, October 20th, 2017 at 5:09 pm by Dan Musick
Business Focus
Over the years our main focus has been to honor God by being good stewards of the resources He has provided.

I learned this principle from two Christian business men, Bill Pollard and Dick Lauber, elders at a church I attended many years ago.…
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Friday, October 6th, 2017 at 2:23 pm by Dan Musick

In an earlier blog we mentioned Jorie’s and Neal’s wedding. Neal is our warehouse manager and Jorie has helped here with personnel matters, including completing a company policy manual that had been started several years previously. She also helped to see that the orders got to their intended destinations.…
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Friday, September 29th, 2017 at 4:49 pm by Dan Musick
Most garage doors consist of sections that are connected with hinges. The end hinges and fixtures have rollers to allow the door to roll up into the tracks.
History of Garage Door Section Construction
In the early decades of door construction most sections were made of wood.…
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Friday, September 15th, 2017 at 5:40 pm by Dan Musick
“We help people fix their garage doors.”
That was written on the first flier I printed back in 1980.
My plan was to provide training for maintenance personnel to repair their commercial and industrial overhead type doors. This was for the bigger companies in Chicago such as Honeywell and Wrigley, the chewing gum company, but I also did some quite effective training for a smaller company, Volvo / Honda of Lisle, IL.…
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Friday, September 1st, 2017 at 6:34 pm by Dan Musick
Those of us who have been in the business for a while remember the old BarCol doors. This name is short for Barber Coleman.

The biggest difficulty we remember is accommodating the incompatibility of torsion hardware. While all the other door companies used 1″ shafts, the early shafts on BarCol doors doors had a 1 1/16″ outside diameter.…
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