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Woody
Woody GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/26/15 6:02 a.m.

Canoe

EastCoastMojo
EastCoastMojo GRM+ Memberand Mod Squad
10/26/15 6:52 a.m.

Canoe deleted.

Enyar
Enyar Dork
10/26/15 7:26 a.m.

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.

egnorant
egnorant SuperDork
10/26/15 10:21 a.m.

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

PeterAK
PeterAK Dork
10/26/15 10:24 a.m.

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.

Woody
Woody GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/26/15 10:37 a.m.
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.

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Woody
Woody GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/26/15 10:43 a.m.

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".

Woody
Woody GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/26/15 10:44 a.m.
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.

WonkoTheSane
WonkoTheSane GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
10/26/15 12:25 p.m.

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.

Enyar
Enyar Dork
10/26/15 1:11 p.m.
Woody wrote:  photo IMG_6666_zpsqrpgmarj.jpg

Niiiiiiiiiiice!

ValuePack
ValuePack SuperDork
10/26/15 1:35 p.m.
Woody wrote:  photo IMG_6666_zpsqrpgmarj.jpg

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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