Pictured: my garage door's spring

"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle) 07/25/2014 at 17:51 • Filed to: None

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call from the wife says things have catastrophically failed :S

Spaceball-Two > MonkeePuzzle 07/25/2014 at 18:54

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I've been there. Had a spring fail and fly across the garage and hit me in the leg. Hurt like a SOB

Slave2anMG > MonkeePuzzle 07/25/2014 at 20:08

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Had one fail. No spring fling; it all stayed in place. But take my advice and get a professional to install the new one...

Pixel > MonkeePuzzle 07/25/2014 at 21:08

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Cable the springs, it makes them a bunch safer.

When one of my springs snapped the pulley on one end, it did this to the bracket on the other end before flying across the garage. The replacement spring and all the others got cabled after that.

MonkeePuzzle > Pixel 07/26/2014 at 12:01

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mine are torsional springs, so they are contained by the bar they rotate around

MonkeePuzzle > Slave2anMG 07/26/2014 at 12:02

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he is here are I type :D

MonkeePuzzle > Spaceball-Two 07/26/2014 at 12:05

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youch!!!