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I can see how this would be nice/necessary if you had a lift but otherwise do you really gain space? If anything you lose the ability to add a rack above the door.
I have been looking for a way to add a bit of room because my door opens over the lift. I cannot just go up like you did, but wondered if I could angle the track to match the roof line. I envision the load on the spring not being sufficient when fully open. Bit of study to do.
Bruce
Will the second one go on a door with standard tracks?
I'm half way through installing a new opener in my garage. Read that, I got most of it done and then the kids wanted to decorate the yard for Halloween. The simplicity of your new units seems to make a lot of sense compared to the standard openers.
Enyar wrote: I can see how this would be nice/necessary if you had a lift but otherwise do you really gain space? If anything you lose the ability to add a rack above the door.
This is a zombie thread from two years ago.
I put in a lift.
In reply to egnorant:
I'm pretty sure that you can do that, but remember that with the raised door on an angle rather than parallel to the floor, you will always have a lot of weight (potential energy) stored there due to gravity.
Search "high lift conversion".
PeterAK wrote: Will the second one go on a door with standard tracks? I'm half way through installing a new opener in my garage. Read that, I got most of it done and then the kids wanted to decorate the yard for Halloween. The simplicity of your new units seems to make a lot of sense compared to the standard openers.
I replaced the openers on the other two garage doors with the same Liftmaster units, using the original, lower tracks.
Thanks for the write up, I didn't see this first go around.. I need to do this so I can open my garage door with a car on the lift.
Woody wrote:
Niiiiiiiiiiice!
Woody wrote:
I'm signing this afternoon on my new house. My detatched 20x20 has 7ish-ft ceilings. I think I hate you a little.
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