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Car Forum / Antique and Collectibles / Studebaker / August 2005Joy of Home Ownership (ot)
Sumbich! My truck gave me a bit of trouble last week... Battery crapped out, and the alternator failed. Which cam first? Who knows... Swapped the battery near Atlanta and nursed it the 450 miles home ... Took it to the shop for repairs and maintenance... Fixed it fine... The mower battery died and that was replaced... The gate closer battery is acting up and it needs replacement too... Today I was in the office doing paperwork and I here this weird noise and a big WHAM! The noise sounded like a giant zipper being unzipped... And the WHAM was a big WHAM. Shook the house.... Knowing the wife has a propensity for bizarre house tricks, I immediately searched for her corpse. She was standing in the open door leading to the garage looking back at me with the best 'Oh S#!t' look I have seen in years <lol>.. The dogs were running to me for safety (which is the ultimate oxymoron behavior)... I carefully move toward my wife to investigate.. She has this 'look' on her face. Not 'The Look', jus 'A Look'... Turns out one of the coil springs on the garage door snapped and the door decided to do the guillotine dive of death. The opener couldn't hold it ( that was the ZZZzzzziip noise).. Good thing there wasn't anything underneath it. It took both of us to just pick the door up and block it open so we could get out. Called the garage door company. They were there within 2 hours.... Good guy! Fixed it within an hour and we even had a 10% off coupon (which the wife presented 'after' he presented up with the bill)... Still, it cost $250 Grrrr (but with a smile, as I didn't have to fix that sob door) Jeff (another career best left to others) Rice I think it's time to move..... > Sumbich! > [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > Grrrr (but with a smile, as I didn't have to fix that sob door) > Jeff (another career best left to others) Rice  SignatureRemove all the x's to email. 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I think if I break a few more things I can get a steal of a deal on some property in Ocala. <G> Rick ( Have hammer, will travel ) Courtier > I think it's time to move..... > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > Grrrr (but with a smile, as I didn't have to fix that sob door) > > Jeff (another career best left to others) Rice Wasn't there a thread a while back about putting a cable through those coils... that they do nasty things to cars if they get away? Of course I read it and thought, "that's a damn good idea" and haven't given it a second thought since. Lee > Sumbich! > [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > Grrrr (but with a smile, as I didn't have to fix that sob door) > Jeff (another career best left to others) Rice This is the house with the 'for sale' sign in front, correct? Maybe you should check your life insurance policy. Tim K. Yeah... I should have taken out the "I'm listing my house so every frikkin' thing is now going to break' insurance <g?> Jeff (The deductible is a doozy!) Rice "GTtim" wrote... > This is the house with the 'for sale' sign in front, correct? Maybe > you should check your life insurance policy. > Tim K. There's a pipe through these springs, so they didn't go anywhere... Interesting enough, when I looked in the back of the guys truck, there were a half dozen springs in there...all broken. Jeff ( Tis' the season, I guess...) Rice "Lee Aanderud" wrote... > Wasn't there a thread a while back about putting a cable through those > coils... that they do nasty things to cars if they get away? Of course I > read it and thought, "that's a damn good idea" and haven't given it a > second thought since. Just checked mine, I've got a pipe through them too... and a collar on each end so there's no way I could put a cable through them even if I wanted to. Lee > There's a pipe through these springs, so they didn't go anywhere... > Interesting enough, when I looked in the back of the guys truck, there [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >> read it and thought, "that's a damn good idea" and haven't given it a >> second thought since. That is what you are supposed to do. It could break a windshield very easily. Paul V > Wasn't there a thread a while back about putting a cable through those > coils... that they do nasty things to cars if they get away? Of course I [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] >> Grrrr (but with a smile, as I didn't have to fix that sob door) >> Jeff (another career best left to others) Rice When you speak of threading a cable through the coils of the garage door spring, I take it you are speaking of the tension-type spring used on each side of a flip-up door, right? My roll-up sectional door has two big torsion springs on the axle above the door, and there is no way to thread anything in there. If a spring broke, the door would drop, but the broken coils would be still strung on the axle. Gord Richmond That's why I have a new Hurricane (semi) proof garage door. But it cost me more then $250. It was $1200 but it's insulated for the AC in the garage. It's nice until I open the garage door. <G> > Sumbich! > [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > Grrrr (but with a smile, as I didn't have to fix that sob door) > Jeff (another career best left to others) Rice That's one reason I went to the roll up panel doors. Not much weight on the springs when it is up. > Sumbich! > [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > Grrrr (but with a smile, as I didn't have to fix that sob door) > Jeff (another career best left to others) Rice Making springs for a living, I make garage door springs and attic ladder springs quite often, I often hear horror stories of how they pop and hit things in the garage, there are lots of different style door springs, I also make them for garage door installers, who come in and tell me they can't buy them anymore as they are now obsolete. Bob Whiten Wagonmaster http://community.webtv.net/zzbob/StudebakersandMore Good point.. I'll remember that on the next house. Jeff "Alex Magdaleno" wrote... > That's one reason I went to the roll up panel doors. Not much weight on > the springs when it is up. [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >> Grrrr (but with a smile, as I didn't have to fix that sob door) >> Jeff (another career best left to others) Rice You can usually add them to an existing house for about $500. I installed my own and saved a little. > Good point.. > I'll remember that on the next house. [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >>> Grrrr (but with a smile, as I didn't have to fix that sob door) >>> Jeff (another career best left to others) Rice |
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