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10-11-2019, 01:11 PM #26
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10-11-2019, 01:18 PM #27Scientists now have decisive molecular evidence that humans and chimpanzees once had a common momma and that this lineage had previously split from monkeys.
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10-11-2019, 01:32 PM #28
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10-11-2019, 01:37 PM #29Registered User
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10-11-2019, 01:44 PM #30
probably best to wait and see what SJG has to say about this.
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10-11-2019, 01:52 PM #31
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10-11-2019, 01:58 PM #32
what the fuck are you talking about? everything bends. the difference between the alloys you can buy at my vendor aren't that much. but keep up the passive agressive smug, it's what makes this board this board, people will pick a fight and wave their dick about absolutely fucking everything "lol, my cold rolled 1018 steel is so much better for winding garage door springs because I'm so gnar I bend A36 hot rolled".
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10-11-2019, 01:59 PM #33
Garage door repair? Anyone know anything?
I love this thread. I was all primed to say: “Don’t mess with that fucking spring, it killed a friend of a friend when I was younger”. Now I think I’d have it. I’d roll that fucking spring myself around some old pipe I have in the garage.
I’d use the side door to get in there of course, those fucking doors are killers.Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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10-11-2019, 02:04 PM #34
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10-11-2019, 02:08 PM #35
Springs?
Buncha horseshit if you ask me.
Just use magnets.
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10-11-2019, 02:13 PM #36
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10-11-2019, 02:17 PM #37
leftover treadmill parts
Scientists now have decisive molecular evidence that humans and chimpanzees once had a common momma and that this lineage had previously split from monkeys.
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10-11-2019, 03:09 PM #38
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10-11-2019, 03:19 PM #39
I paid a pro.
Maybe I probably coulda done it? Take way too long researching, procrastinating, maybe get the right part, always wonder if it's right, and maybe get hurt in the process .. and not use my garage for however long.
Nah, I just paid what 150 and had it done immediately. Correctly. Warrantee-dly.
I make a crappy wage per hour - and it was absolutely worth paying.
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10-11-2019, 03:34 PM #40
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10-12-2019, 03:40 PM #41
Been on both sides of this.
Back when I was a teenager, my dad and I replaced one of the two springs on our two car garage door. He's a midwest farm boy so instruction manuals are for sissies, he sees how this works, you only replace the broken piece, blah blah blah. Probably took us the whole day to get it all taken apart and put back together and tensioned. Except during tensioning the bar we were using to hold the head slipped out and shot across the garage. Did not hurt us, but seeing what happened, that would fuck you up for sure if you were in the line of fire. Immediate missing digit.
Less than a month later, the other spring broke. We called a guy, and it was pretty much 50% parts, 50% labor. Dude chastised my dad for not replacing both at the same time.
Fast forward 25 years and my springs broke. Called a guy and it was still 50/50 parts to labor, and he lubed every roller and hinge so it doesn't squeak at all anymore. And they were done in an hour. Money well spent.I've concluded that DJSapp was never DJSapp, and Not DJSapp is also not DJSapp, so that means he's telling the truth now and he was lying before.
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10-12-2019, 04:37 PM #42AF
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Unrelated to the broken spring. I recently replaced our 20 yo opener with a Chamberlin direct drive unit, so much better. As long as you have a torsion spring it clamps directly to the end of the spring shaft. No chain, belt or screw and no track across the ceiling. Never did one before but running the wires from the electric eye and the wall remote took way longer than opener installation. If power is close by an installation is maybe an hour. Also has a dead bolt lock that automatically locks door down. WIFI on phone to open or close or one included remote. Noise??, nope quietest opener I have ever heard. A little more expensive but well worth it.
Last edited by bigdude2468; 10-13-2019 at 05:53 AM.
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10-12-2019, 04:59 PM #43
Yeah, I think you just need to think about the potential energy in a wound spring and decide whether you'd want to risk fucking up. Decision seems easy to me.
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10-12-2019, 05:01 PM #44
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10-12-2019, 09:15 PM #45
If I'm working I pay a pro, for anything more involved than changing oil and filters, shit I can do faster than scheduling and waiting for someone else to do it when I could be skiing or fishing or whatever. If I'm unemployed, and it's something I have no clue about I keep trying to fix it over and over until I have a job again and can pay a pro to fix it right..
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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10-12-2019, 11:14 PM #46
My dad can fix most anything, wire a shop for 220v, build a garage, fix the air handler, rebuild an engine, etc. Spent his life around heavy equipment and construction sites. He always said don’t fuck with those god damn garage door springs.
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10-13-2019, 08:31 AM #47
Last winter the big orange WARNING STICKER fell off the spring on my garage door. I called the repair guy to come out and place a new warning sticker on the spring.
Some things I'm going to leave to the professionals.
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10-13-2019, 09:11 AM #48
https://youtu.be/BAaoHX9KiWY
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10-13-2019, 12:19 PM #49"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
"I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
"THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
"I have posted in here but haven't read it carefully with my trusty PoliAsshat antenna on."-DipshitDanno
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10-13-2019, 12:34 PM #50
I need to get back to the fishing. Past 10 years on the water were spent helping my kids and a scout troop keep their lines baited and untangled. I did get a few personal casts in at Yellowstone two summers ago but not even a nibble that day. Skiing still happens about every month weather permitting.
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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