Way to go, Neal and Jorie! Congratulations! We wish you all the best as you begin your lives together. The Warehouse Manager, Neal, and Jorie, Personnel Manager, were wed on October 21, 2016.
Neal has been a huge help since we were working out of our garage, not many years ago.…
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Over the past year, my company – and many others – have been the victims of a disturbing business competition strategy being used by certain disreputable companies, whose aim is to falsely cast their targeted competitors as being “disliked” on public media sites.…
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This is the Cubs first World Series win in 108 years! …
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There are two types of operators, drawbar with trolley and jackshaft. We will cover some potential solutions since Jackshaft operators tend to cause cable problems.
On trolley type operators, the drawbar arm pushes and pulls the top of the door to open and close it.…
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When upgrading to longer life torsion springs, it is often better to convert to four smaller springs. This is especially true when the torsion springs are for heavier garage doors.
On a standard two spring system, both torsion springs normally mount back to back to the spring anchor bracket off-centered above the door.…
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Overhead Door Corporation has discontinued the production of its own brand of hinges.
The Arrow Tru-Line hinges are an excellent replacement. However, the holes don’t always line up with the existing carriage bolts on the older wooden doors.
You can see the difference between the Overhead Door and Arrow Tru-Line hinges in the image below.…
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We received an email this week from a do-it-yourselfer who had installed a Clopay door with an EZ-SET torsion spring set up. On his door, he has a single spring with a winder at the left end of the torsion assembly.…
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Over the years, we have had customers contact us for help converting from double low headroom tracks to high lift. This usually happens when they remove a loft from above the door or when they move a low headroom door from one location to another.…
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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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