Repurpose Old Garage Door Opener

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Repurpose old garage door opener.

The carvings and designs of a wooden garage door will look awesome as a bed headboard. Simply cut pieces from your door sand them and prime them to paint your panels whatever color you choose. A quick inspection revealed that the sprocket on top of the unit sheared off the shaft. Repurposed garage door opener a while back one of our craftsman 1 2 hp chain drive garage door openers stopped functioning properly.

Whether kept intact or broken into smaller parts an old garage door has myriad potential second lives. Old genie garage door opener duration. So i like to use the motor for some type of project. Just take a look at these great projects that use repurposed garage doors.

Genie chainmax 1000 side mount conversion jackshaft garage door opener jackshaft duration. Any experience good or bad repurposing parts from a 14 year old genie or similar garage door opener. The design of the garage door panels will look awesome and classy. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.

And decided to try to revive the old opener and re purpose it. All it takes is creativity and imagination. 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. After the screw drive shaft snapped ive now replaced with a quieter belt drive model.

Garage door opener posted in hardware. A garage door with glass panels is especially perfect so that the sunlight gets in but you can also add new glass to the old panels of your door. Use one of the panels as a headboard for a bed. Low difficulty ideas to repurpose your garage door jacket or key holder for the entryway this simple yet clever idea allows you to use panels from your existing garage door to create a unique jacket or key holder to hang by your front door.

Has anyone here created a project with a garage door opener motor. Seems a shame to chuck the old components sensors remotes keypad board motor if any parts could should be repurposed for another use. The doors stopped moving even though the motor still ran. The list of the things you can do with your old garage door in this article is not exhaustive.