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Reply to comment by navigationallyaided in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
Thanks buddy! I’m actually thinking I’ll replace the door entirely with something safer
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Reply to comment by paladin_20 in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
I hear you man, thanks
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Reply to comment by rhinoclaus in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
Thanks that all makes sense
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Reply to comment by sfdragonboy in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
Yikes! Thanks for the perspective I’ll definitely consider this. Glad you and your neighbor were ok bud
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Reply to comment by ScootchOva in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
Thanks, same to you!
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Reply to comment by ScootchOva in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
No I appreciate the observation, thanks. From what I have learned in this thread though, there is an important distinction between torsion springs (essentially bombs that can shred you to pieces due to stored up energy) and extension springs (more like a trampoline -- no stored up energy until you extend them). This spring is the latter.
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Reply to comment by tuckedfexas in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
Lol totally agree. Someone was very proud of their weekend project though I'm sure
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Reply to comment by danauns in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
That makes a lot of sense. Here is the spring, btw, which I was able to find with the help of this distinction: https://www.thelumberyard.com/SPRING-EXTENSION-BLACK-32IN-p/5658042.htm
So basically whereas a torsion spring is always already under tension, and thus has a ton of potential energy stored up, an extension spring is not under tension until it is extended (like a trampoline), is that right?
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Reply to comment by Kikithekoala in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
Thanks, I appreciate that perspective and see where you're coming from.
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Reply to comment by roadfood in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
No I'm going to replace with hinged barn doors, this is going to become my workshop. Totally agree on these doors
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Reply to comment by WardStradlater in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
Super helpful, that makes a lot of sense
moron_that_later OP t1_iu51rew wrote
Reply to comment by WardStradlater in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
haha that sounds very likely. the whole garage is full of these "makeshift solutions." but let's be honest, someone's going to be posting the same stuff about my hackjobs on some forum 50 years from now..
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Reply to comment by tuckedfexas in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
Thanks, I really appreciate that. I'll wait to see what else comes in but I tend to agree with you. It doesn't feel like the springs are helping much to lift and lower the door.
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Reply to comment by navigationallyaided in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later
Thanks