Repurpose Garage Door Opener Motor

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Repurpose garage door opener motor.

A quick inspection revealed that the sprocket on top of the unit sheared off the shaft. Has anyone here created a project with a garage door opener motor. The doors stopped moving even though the motor still ran. Low difficulty ideas to repurpose your garage door jacket or key holder for the entryway.

Simply cut pieces from your door sand them and prime them to paint your panels whatever color you choose. Whether kept intact or broken into smaller parts an old garage door has myriad potential second lives. You can also use an old garage door opener for practical jokes as shown in this old canadian tv show start 3 25 in. Just take a look at these great projects that use repurposed garage doors.

I reversed the motor in mine and turned it into a garage door closer. 94 points 7 years ago. Repurposed garage door opener a while back one of our craftsman 1 2 hp chain drive garage door openers stopped functioning properly. The original style of garage door opener opened and closed with a chain drive.

Not knowing any better and being under a time crunch to get the. If you can see something that looks like a bicycle chain near the motor unit of your opener consider replacing it with a screw driver or belt drive garage door opener. Repurpose for the mechanically inclined your old but still working garage door opener can be a motor to power a number of projects including a dumb waiter for transporting groceries from the garage to the kitchen for example or any number of creative motorized inventions. It can swoop out of trees with the press of a button.

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