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Garage Door Springs–Innovations Part 2: Safety

Friday, June 18th, 2010 at 7:56 pm by Dan Musick
The TorqueMaster garage door spring.

Three main products in the area of garage door spring safety have been introduced in the last 20 years:

Wayne Dalton TorqueMaster springs (shown installed above) wind with a drill. The TorqueMaster is the first system to offer a counter balance spring sealed inside the garage door tube for safety.…

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Garage Door Springs Innovations I: Galvanized and Coated

Saturday, June 5th, 2010 at 2:20 pm by Dan Musick

About 20 years ago, galvanized garage door torsion springs broke into the garage door parts market as an alternative to oil-tempered springs. Later, electro-coating on oil-tempered torsion springs augmented the buyer’s set of choices.

Because traditional oil-tempered garage door torsion springs have an oily residue owing to their oil-enabled manufacture, installers often leave dirty smudges from the springs on the doors, to the ire of the customer.…

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Troubleshooting Your Garage Door or Opener?

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 at 8:38 pm by Dan Musick
Garage door troubleshooting

According to Wikipedia, troubleshooting is “a form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes on a machine or a system. It is a logical, systematic search for the source of a problem in order to solve it, and make the product or process operational again.”…

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Calculators for Garage Door Weight

Monday, September 3rd, 2007 at 4:48 pm by Dan Musick

Other web sites have calculators for determining your door weight to help in selecting the correct garage door springs. The most important part of the program to remember is that the door weights given are only approximations. In other words, they are not reliable for ordering garage door springs.…

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