What is a left-hand spring or a right-hand spring?
In the door business, it could mean one of two things.
It could mean the wind of the spring, which would be a left wind spring. A spring wound the opposite direction would be a right wind spring.…
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On a garage door with standard lift tracks, the top of the door rises immediately into the radius at about a 45-degree angle. If the door has windows in the top section, the pitch of the tracks allows the window frame to clear the top PVC stop molding.…
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The most difficult part of installing the Omron E3JM Photo Eyes on older PowerMaster operators is knowing how to run the wires. This image should help. Additional instructions for running the wires are on our blog titled, “Omron Photo Eye Installation,” or on our YouTube channel.…
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High lift is defined as the dimension from the top of the garage door to the center line of the horizontal tracks. Most residential doors with 12″ radius tracks have 4 3/4″ of high lift, and doors with 15″ radius tracks have 7 1/2″ of high lift.…
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Since we first posted our custom High Lift Garage Door Conversion instructions several years ago, we have noticed a few things that need to be improved through assembly modifications.
One was the alignment of the horizontal and vertical angles in step 7.11.…
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When converting the older Crawford garage doors with outside lift cable drums and bottom fixtures to standard torsion spring systems, or when replacing springs on low headroom doors with outside lift hardware, you will need to make the following changes that differ from replacing standard garage door torsion springs.…
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Most residential sectional garage doors use standard lift tracking and standard torsion hardware. However, commercial and industrial garage doors frequently use vertical lift tracking. Therefore, determining how to wind a torsion spring depends on many factors, including what kind of garage door you have and the width of your cable drums.…
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In recent months we have received emails from customers who installed high lift kits, and now one of their cables is fraying or unraveling due to rough edges on the drums.
This appears to be a problem with the foundry where the OMI 4-54 HL LD cable drums are made.…
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Without first seeking professional help, the most common problem do-it-yourselfers encounter when adding vertical track and raising their garage doors a foot or more is that the door doesn’t balance correctly. This is a common high lift problem.
In order to get the door to work at all, you need to install longer cables.…
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At DDM Garage Doors, we go to great lengths to help our customers select the correct springs. Sometimes customers order the wrong springs, the garage door doesn’t balance, and they contact us for help.
On standard lift and industrial vertical lift garage doors like you find in businesses and homes, there are three common scenarios.…
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