Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

successful morning that did not end well, and it's only 9am......
garage took my air dam off, and then said no charge, just a little job.
joys of a small town...plus I buy gas there, and give them plenty of other work.

so happy about that I pull in to home and push button for garage door.
up it goes and huh? stopped a few feet up all cockeyed.
I took a closer look...hmmm, helper spring wire came undone, probably some kind of clip that holds wire
to the spring, I have no idea, never worked with this stuff.
guess I'll be calling the garage door place that installed it.
at least I was able to help it up half way to get in and see what was going on.
door then slid back down, guess I have it well oiled anyway.

not what I want to deal with today
because it's under tension, not sure I want to screw with it.

 

[Engineer42]

Mostly, sorry to hear about your brother.

Buppies, it sounds like you have a solid plan in place. Glad to hear of progress.

Drew, looks like your spring broke.

 

[m7040]

My first real job out of college was working for a large nuclear power reactor engineering firm. Three Mile Island failed a few months after I started, and people started leaving like rats leaving a sinking ship. And most of the work went overseas, and I hated the idea of spending most of my career in Japan

Funny, I had the same experience working on Nuclear plant that was cancelled. Company wanted to send me to Taiwan and enrolled me in Mandarin lessons. Fortunately another domestic assignment came up

 

[kenmbz]

successful morning that did not end well, and it's only 9am......
garage took my air dam off, and then said no charge, just a little job.
joys of a small town...plus I buy gas there, and give them plenty of other work.

so happy about that I pull in to home and push button for garage door.
up it goes and huh? stopped a few feet up all cockeyed.
I took a closer look...hmmm, helper spring wire came undone, probably some kind of clip that holds wire
to the spring, I have no idea, never worked with this stuff.
guess I'll be calling the garage door place that installed it.
at least I was able to help it up half way to get in and see what was going on.
door then slid back down, guess I have it well oiled anyway.

not what I want to deal with today
because it's under tension, not sure I want to screw with it.

Drew, you just need a new pair of springs installed. Easy job.
Always replace both and do one at a time. Any garage guy can do this in 30 minutes or so, only took me that long to replace mine, and I'm slow.
Springs available on Amazon, yellow mark is the weight class for the spring.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

successful morning that did not end well, and it's only 9am......
garage took my air dam off, and then said no charge, just a little job.
joys of a small town...plus I buy gas there, and give them plenty of other work.

so happy about that I pull in to home and push button for garage door.
up it goes and huh? stopped a few feet up all cockeyed.
I took a closer look...hmmm, helper spring wire came undone, probably some kind of clip that holds wire
to the spring, I have no idea, never worked with this stuff.
guess I'll be calling the garage door place that installed it.
at least I was able to help it up half way to get in and see what was going on.
door then slid back down, guess I have it well oiled anyway.

not what I want to deal with today
because it's under tension, not sure I want to screw with it.

That cable hanging in first pic is the cable that pulls the door open, with the assist of the spring, that is now broken. so one side broke, and the door is now cockeyed. the fix is make a phone call....

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 49F @ 7:15AM. Sunshine and a few clouds. High 73F. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph.

Be glad that door didn't come down while you were pulling in, Drew. I lost the windshield on a Porsche 912 that way long ago in my misspent youth. That was my first lesson on garage door springs, and threatening landlords with a lawsuite for maintaining an unsafe condition.

FedEx says my new laptop left Shanghai yesterday morning and landed this morning in Memphis. Now I'm really curious about the tariff situation.

Yesterday was a sort of bounce around day where I stopped looking past some little annoying fixit jobs and took care of them. One was the door between the office and garage, which had to be slammed before it would latch, and that was also equipped with spring hinges. The spring hinges were easily defeated with an Allen wrench and a pair of tweezers. And the slamming was caused by a strip of stick on weather strip placed over a poorly adjusted balloon gasket weather strip. Just a matter of taking an hour to do the right thing. Another one was gathering up all the tie downs and ratchet straps that were scattered around the garage and inside the van and putting them in the plastic bin where they belonged. Gosh, I've sure got a lot of straps now!

Day before yesterday I received a Wildfire Prepared Home Certification for the place up north, and decided I'd better check to see if it made it any easier to obtain homeowners insurance. Completed a questionnaire at the Mercury Insurance website, and got a quote for about $3500/year, a hair more than half of what I'm paying now. I didn't follow through with a switch to them, but if the place up north doesn't sell in the next few weeks I will.

When Tesla stock was in free fall last week, I bought a share. Two days later after it went down again, I bought another. Yesterday both were back in the black. Should'a bought 100 shares each time. Would'a, Should'a, Could'a, but my faith in the trade just wasn't very strong.

New car camping mattress showed up yesterday. It's a foam filled air mattress that mostly self inflates when you open the valves. And it's 30" wide, and 80 something long, pretty luxurious by air mattress standards. But somehow I couldn't bring myself to try it out last night. Maybe tonight?

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

busy day at the farm. road was backed up with vehicles. So far they unloaded a skidsteer with a roller on front, a skidsteer with a bucket on front, there's at least one truckload of stone, and other vehicles. They removed the flags marking the electric lines.
We have 2 pipeline companies working, the 2nd is just a temp water line. Don't know which outfit this is yet.

 

[Looking4new]

Scotty, it is so much easier to reload an empty truck than one part full. That is why I think the driver will be okay with coming back before he leaves for home. That is IF he works his way to here. If he does it the other way round, then he wont be as welcoming to that deal. It doesn't matter to me. After I fill the house tank I will just call them for another dump.
I hauled fuel oil for a construction company many years ago. The refinery didn't have the plumbing in place to put the dye in the trucks automatically, we drivers had to put in a dye pack. I never did and when I ran low on fuel in the truck I would fuel myself off my 5,000 gallon tank, Crooked? Yes, but so is gypsy trucking and that got done allot on both sides of the border. American truckers going from one Canadian city to another and Canadian truckers down there hauling American loads from one American city to another. That was back in the '80s for me. I started running almost legal (never got an overload ticket in 39 years of hauling tar) after I started with my current company.

 

[sodamo]

66°f and .16 inches rain.

Much needed rain made for indoor most of the day yesterday. Do with we had more accumulation.
Lot of text discussion on upcoming concrete pour for a friend. 22ft diameter ring for a new catchment tank. He has a small mixer.
UPS delivered my air hydraulic jack for my press. Like attempt installing that today.

H &F at friends this afternoon. Gonna try a fresh spinach and beet salad and some roasted kabocha to go with Diane’s shrimp.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[daugen]

Drew, looks like your spring broke.

it did, both springs replaced
300 bucks later, done