Repurpose Old Garage Door Opener

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Repurpose old garage door opener.

Any experience good or bad repurposing parts from a 14 year old genie or similar garage door opener. This thread is archived. The list of the things you can do with your old garage door in this article is not exhaustive. Simply cut pieces from your door sand them and prime them to paint your panels whatever color you choose.

So i like to use the motor for some type of project. Whether kept intact or broken into smaller parts an old garage door has myriad potential second lives. Seems a shame to chuck the old components sensors remotes keypad board motor if any parts could should be repurposed for another use. Bench using either wood or metal you can turn your garage door into a beautiful outdoor bench.

And decided to try to revive the old opener and re purpose it. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Just take a look at these great projects that use repurposed garage doors. Old genie garage door opener duration.

The carvings and designs of a wooden garage door will look awesome as a bed headboard. The design of the garage door panels will look awesome and classy. All it takes is creativity and imagination. Has anyone here created a project with a garage door opener motor.

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. After the screw drive shaft snapped ive now replaced with a quieter belt drive model. The doors stopped moving even though the motor still ran. Repurposed garage door opener a while back one of our craftsman 1 2 hp chain drive garage door openers stopped functioning properly.

A garage door with glass panels is especially perfect so that the sunlight gets in but you can also add new glass to the old panels of your door. A quick inspection revealed that the sprocket on top of the unit sheared off the shaft. Use one of the panels as a headboard for a bed. I have an old garage door opener that was given to me after i purchased a new one.