Repurpose Garage Door Opener Motor

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Repurpose garage door opener motor.

The original style of garage door opener opened and closed with a chain drive. It can swoop out of trees with the press of a button. The doors stopped moving even though the motor still ran. 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.

Not knowing any better and being under a time crunch to get the. 94 points 7 years ago. Has anyone here created a project with a garage door opener motor. You can also use an old garage door opener for practical jokes as shown in this old canadian tv show start 3 25 in.

Whether kept intact or broken into smaller parts an old garage door has myriad potential second lives. A quick inspection revealed that the sprocket on top of the unit sheared off the shaft. With a bit of creativity you can make many useful things from old garage door and garage openers. Low difficulty ideas to repurpose your garage door jacket or key holder for the entryway.

Repurposed garage door opener a while back one of our craftsman 1 2 hp chain drive garage door openers stopped functioning properly. This thread is archived. 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. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.

Use your old garage door system to rig up a scary flying ghost.