[DeTomaso] Near tradgey last night

[Thomas Tornblom]

Has happened twice for me. The first time the spring snapped at the 
bottom, and was wedged between the upper joint and the ceiling (!)

This type of door is now illegal, I believe in the entire EU, for safety 
reasons.

Thomas

michael at michaelshortt.com skrev 2011-11-04 21.04:
> Not in the general Scheme of things, all loved ones and pets are safe and
> sound.
>
> I heard a noise, got up, looked around, didn't see anything and went back
> to bed.
>
> Came home early today because we are having Guests ( Rob and his wife from
> JAX
>
> are going to the HHI Concours with with this weekend.
>
> In the garage wall there is a fresh, nice big gash and lying on the floor
> is a garage door spring.
>
> It snapped in the middle of the night and managed to missed The Pantera,
> Joni's SLK and two motorcycles
>
> on it's journey from the door frame, into the wall (at what must have been
> a fairly rapid pace)
>
> and then to the floor.
>
> IT was a 140 lb. rated spring about 25" long, I have never paid much
> attention to those things, interesting that
>
> they remain unstressed when the door is up ( open ) which is like .01% of
> the time and extended and stressed
>
> when the door is closed (99.9% of the time).
>
> Our house was built in 1992, so these springs are 19 years old, there are
> two per door.
>
> It was easy enough to replace ( they sell them at Lowe's ) , I think I'll
> probably
>
> do the other three soon as well.
>
> Check yours, I've never heard of one snapping before this one, anybody else?
>
> Michael Shortt
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