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Spring Loaded
Garage Door Repair - Torsion Springs
Garage doors are certainly heavy and some type springing systems must used at the top with cables attaching to the bottom section of the door to counterbalance the weight. When a garage door is opened, these springs assist in lightening the weight of the door. When closing the door, the springs keep it from striking hard on the ground and damaging the door or causing injury.
To release the spring tension, open the door in the fully open and clamp the door into position using a pair of vice grips in the tracks to prevent the door from moving. Once the door is open, you can make spring adjustments to only the extension spring type systems.
Torsion spring systems adjustments are not recommended by the do it yourselfer.
Mostly overhead garage door springs have a life expectation of 10,000 cycles, unless you special ordered your door with extended life cycle springs. One cycle is an operation of an up and down. The extension and torsion springs are tempered (hardened) steel that comes either in plain cold-rolled, painted, oil soaked, or galvanized. When the garage door is closed position these springs are under very extreme tension and can be dangerous causing injury.
Overtime, or during the later stages of the life cycles, springs will start to weaken, and will eventually start stretching and or break, usually releasing its spring load with loud bang. Most homeowners, if you are at home, hear the spring break and usually unable to find where the noise came from until you try to operate your garage door the next time.
On the average I see a 10k life cycle spring last around 7 to 10 years depending on how regularly you use your door. Anything over 10 years is a bonus. For example, if you average about two cycles per day, opening and closing the door a total of four times as you come and go, then the life expectancy becomes 2500 days, or approximately seven years. If you have children that drive or more adults with vehicles, then you tend to cycle the door even more frequently, which in turn needing a spring replacement even sooner.
Since standard lift torsion springs are winding "up" when the door is closing or going down, the fully closed position is the most stressful on the steel spring material and therefore the most likely the time of breakage. This can be an advantage; because failure near the top-of-travel means that you suddenly have a large heavy door coming down and crashing against the floor with the increased weight from the spring breakage. As a rule of thumb, and for safety reasons, you should never be standing or walking under the door when it is in operation, especially if you do so manually instead of with an electric opener. Also automatic door operators will provide additional safety if and when the spring breaks during the door movement.
When the springs are working properly, the door appears just about weightless, but this is an illusion that turns into a disaster when the springs suddenly fail.
Warning: If you need to make annual adjustments to the springs or repair the door, we suggest using a trained garage door craftsman to do your annual tune-ups.
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How do you remove a spring loaded hinge from the door frame?
We have double glass doors between the lounge and kitchen in our 1960 home. We have removed the doors (which was dangerous in itself) but the hinges are still attached to the door frame. How do we take these off without injuring ourselves?
I am guessing we need to release the tension first but how do we do that so we can then remove the screws behind the hinge?
I do this often in a school which has fire doors. Those spring loads are NOT able to be released, as it would then cease to function as intended.
What I do, if the opposing screw holes won't allow access to the screw heads, is pry the hinge open, put a clamp on the detached side, allowing access, then remove. The same process is then used to re-install.
Evene a decent C clamp using a screw driver as the spanning tool will keep the hinge from snapping back, possible causing any damage.
Steven Wolf
Just my two "sense"
ADDED THOUGHT: Some brands/models, have what might look like a round cap on top or bottom of the hinge pin, essentially a tension adjustor. It often has multiple holes in it that allows adjusting tension for closing/opening. It may be, if you have that type, you can re-wind/tighten/loosen the spring, inside the hinge pin fulcrum.
Abraham Hicks - Spring Loaded