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Garage door cables keep coming off.
One of the cables came off my garage door. This lead to hours of me avoiding tensioning the spring, and much swearing. Finally this morning, I bucked up my courage, released the spring and started from scratch.
I got both cables set up with equal tension, tensioned the spring, and opened the door. BOTH cables came off on the spot. How can this be?
Am I wrong in thinking that cable alignment is critical here? When I reset the drums last night, I didn't pay much attention to where I put them on the shaft. Given that the cable is supposed to roll up precisely on the drum, the drums position on the shaft has to be correct so that the cable doesn't slip out of the groves on the drum and lose tension, yes?
I'm about 10 minutes from calling someone and writing a check. I hate dealing with garage doors.....
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