joys of home ownership.............

 well recently that dang ol garage door has been giving me fits. not wanting to close and i have had a time with it. well it finally quit closing all together, and so it was time to finally find and fix the root of the problem. after some inspecting i saw that because of the unwillingness of the door to close it was putting such a strain on the top that it had broken the frame of the door.

 well after a couple spare scraps of metal and some sheet metal screws the frame was re-enforced and ready for action, however this was not the source of the problem just one of the results from an existing issue.

 finally after much lifting and lowering of the door(manually) the root of the problem was found. the pulleys on both sides had worn out their bearings and had begun to cut into the railing, this caused unnecessary friction causing the motor to have too much strain and shut off.

well with a little rigging and a couple of over-sized nuts this problem was temporarily fixed........cost free 99.

well problem fixed?................not so fast........ stay tuned for an update on the garage door fananza.