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emmie
Citizen
Username: Emmie
Post Number: 227
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 7:19 pm: | 
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It only goes up about 7 inches and no more. Gotta go to work tomorrow worried about getting car out. Any suggetions? |
us2innj
Citizen
Username: Us2innj
Post Number: 964
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 7:25 pm: |
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I believe most garage doors have a pull string to disengage the gear. Once this is done, you can raise the door manually. The string would be somewhere on a "clip" along the track, about 2 feet from the motor housing. |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 582
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 7:29 pm: |
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If the door is only going up 6-7 inches the clip will be closer to the door. It's right where the door connects to the chain.
if the door is frozen it's going to take a bit of muscle to get the door open but it will open. |
cody
Citizen
Username: Cody
Post Number: 451
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 6:01 am: |
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If it is frozen, you can blow hot air on the mechanism to unfreeze it by using a hair dryer, once you've disengaged the automatic opener clip.
Also works on frozen water pipes, as we learned one cold winter's day! |
emmie
Citizen
Username: Emmie
Post Number: 229
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 10:57 am: |
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Thanks all, will let you know the outcome. Fortunately, I didn't have to go to work today after all. So when it warms up a little I will try again. |
Mayhewdrive
Citizen
Username: Mayhewdrive
Post Number: 707
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 11:35 am: |
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Soemtimes I find that unplugging & re-plugging in the opener "resets" the unit & the problem goes away. |
soresident
Citizen
Username: Soresident
Post Number: 96
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2004 - 11:13 pm: |
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And if you need professional help with garage doors: Dave and Sons 908 964 0208 |
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