07 March 2019

Klonk

The garage door isn't supposed to go klonk.


My fiberglass door with an aluminum frame has reached its fatigue limit where the opener spreader attaches to the door.

So I put a piece of steel angle behind it, drilled a couple of holes, nuts, bolts...

Voila!


I'd had to back the vertical strip with steel before.  Flimsy thing.
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3 comments:

  1. Beans07 March, 2019 18:26

    That, and the lack of lockwashers or locknuts on the hardware holding the rollers and hinges in place.

    On my last GD (Garage Door, but, yes, it is a curse) I finally got tired and replaced all the self-tapping screws (WTF?) and put in bolts and locknuts with lots of big fender washers where they could fit. Stopped the wobbly door issues, but was a frustrating day of fixing something that shouldn't have been broken in the first place.

    No lockwashers, no locktite, no locknuts or any restraining system at all, and about half of the fasteners were self-tapping.

    Frustrating piece of carp. Grrrrr….

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    1. Angus McThag08 March, 2019 02:54

      I'm lucky that all of the nuts are locking flange style.

      Self tapping is just lazy.

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  2. Bear Claw Chris Lapp08 March, 2019 08:29

    They build homes the same way. I have repairs in several places on both my doors and have issues now that need to be fixed.

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