Repurpose Garage Door Opener Motor

The doors stopped moving even though the motor still ran.

Repurpose garage door opener motor. This thread is archived. Use your old garage door system to rig up a scary flying ghost. Repurposed garage door opener a while back one of our craftsman 1 2 hp chain drive garage door openers stopped functioning properly. Has anyone here created a project with a garage door opener motor.

Not knowing any better and being under a time crunch to get the. With a bit of creativity you can make many useful things from old garage door and garage openers. You can also use an old garage door opener for practical jokes as shown in this old canadian tv show start 3 25 in. The original style of garage door opener opened and closed with a chain drive.

94 points 7 years ago. It can swoop out of trees with the press of a button. I reversed the motor in mine and turned it into a garage door closer. Simply cut pieces from your door sand them and prime them to paint your panels whatever color you choose.

Whether kept intact or broken into smaller parts an old garage door has myriad potential second lives. 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. Just take a look at these great projects that use repurposed garage doors. If you can see something that looks like a bicycle chain near the motor unit of your opener consider replacing it with a screw driver or belt drive garage door opener.

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