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Installing Garage Door Openers

Carl Redhead is on hand to help install the garage door openers on the automotive end of the barn. Carl explains the various brackets and beams used to mount the opener's drive and reviews the chain material used to move the door. Electric eyes are added for safety.
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Installing Garage Door Openers

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" Bob Alex and me already had takeoff hated about -- panels offer. Garage door opener installer quietly because I like these doors excellent or excellent -- commercial grade. Already pre reinforced. It's not as well balances -- installs. To facilitate access heavier gauge steel in which you usually find in residential cordless residential times they gonna have look at fiberglass -- satellite -- pool -- would -- Hot but this one is the quality door. And when we find those in the homes we need to do is remaining to reinforce that. This is what we use for reinforcement. It's an a frame diesel and struck and we mapped out across with so little. So this acts as a step -- when you put it on one of those fiberglass residential doors exact or even the wouldn't want so that when you're pulling on the door from the central point up here. You don't have to worry about the door right and out of time it will happen is the door could increase if this too much force on the appointment. -- sometimes it can be due to. But weather conditions -- maybe stick in the bottom of the door or may want to -- with his candles and -- sure we use this and we won't have anything to worry about. Well in this case -- here we go right to the door right exactly we have react to -- front -- bracket missiles accuses. -- Place -- all right now we'll just run them through this point right now. And then it goes straight off to the -- that we got here in just kind of rigged up some angle right exactly electricians -- the plug in for us. But the angle I'm coming down which will -- the unit from. This is the craftsman belt -- president say this is different from what I'm used to seeing on videos -- bicycle chain this is not a chain is so rubber. What what's it made its its drawbacks and what he does it has like strands now we're running through the reinforcement. But it cuts is a silenced with a running. And it's a long lasting material is actually -- until they use on Harley-Davidson motorcycle was all right yes. Now what about safety concerns with garage doors the status quo is a key factor in any appliance garage doors especially what we're gonna do is that going to mount electric cars and -- inside and we'll send the beamed across. We've grieved over hosts who just -- electrical lines in place. City electric -- basically is a sensing device if there's a child playing under the doors for a dog napping. Not -- the door will not operate exactly in the slopes. So that we'll see is garage door thickness. Earned them I think actually it's movements things. So now we're just gonna finish up here stapled in place we -- Now -- is that really easy for one person to install a new one of these well Obama and three today so let's try what do you have again. Offshore -- I studied it was a what do you do first first thing we do we've already man ahead of reckon we want to get the garage door girls and him -- and the weight is all the detail and over here with the motor is exactly you want to put that house up there. And now we just put a ring through the end of the pin. So that we don't worry about it sliding out of place. And we get OK now what's next Bob what we need to get -- of -- and -- well. That they because this sense that Ryley you can help point that from the door opened the balance okay this isn't heavy really estimate fifteen pound. Reasonably in this -- amounts of rescue -- rather on the top and center it -- up on the latter. Well if you forgot to what -- central in the -- beautiful happening few and damage to doors removing -- random. What we've got basically. Because of both. Who wants to go right through here right through there and we do it on both sides of the same time. We've got running the F relaxed yet there like go about it okay. OK put a little lock washer in there and then are not. The cape be a perfect time to check the alignment with a grunt or innocent or in the same area. Yeah eyeballing at the track is right on senator the door couldn't talk nimble China is a good place were a little -- groups to hold it a little. Quick wrench to tighten with. All right now this thing is good and tight what's next. That's people who think comes right down next. To begin today in the top hole here exactly. OK. What I haven't done. Taken this thing off within a period -- and then gonna put it through walls four holes on the community itself. You know get negative impact on despite normally happen is -- that the covers of well right. -- know I can plug NN opinion played in okay you can go ahead and put in the -- from the smuggled from OK. -- As the remotely ready to go to. It's a nice smooth move in the -- working life and it is pliable. And I can to place -- again and there we go. But art installation one GUN thank you very much Donna what about the safety features that you have that electric eyes and you can remember we put those in down rebuttal here OK what we'll do little -- that Philippine president get -- wolf we're out of Iowa and it. --"

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