Al Carrell: The automatic garage door opener is terrific. It let's you open the door to the garage without having to get out of your car. You don't have to get wet, you don't to get mugged. It's a great thing. However sometimes the opener gets balky and maybe it doesn't want to go all the way down or come up right and usually the first thing to do is to check the door and not the opener. In other words if the door has a real difficult time getting up and down when you operate it manually, then the opener's not going to hack it. Let's take a look. First pull the cord to release the door from the opener. And then operate it manually very slowly lowering it and very slowly raising it. And if you see any place where it snags then that's where you want to go to work. The different things that can happen are: it could be that you have a buildup of grease in the track. You can usually use some spray like WD40 and wipe that out of there. Then you want to also lubricate all the moving parts and that would include the rollers and the hinges between each one of the sections and you want to be sure then to clean the bar that the door rides up and down in. You also want to check to be sure that the track is plumb. You can use a level up against it. If it's not plumb, you can loosen these bolts that hold the brackets and that will allow you to move the track and get it back to where it is plumb, then tighten 'em down and you're in business.
Episode 020 1995 - 96 Season
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