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Re: Custom Garage Door Tracks?

To: doug@dougbraun.com
Subject: Re: Custom Garage Door Tracks?
From: Trevor Boicey <trevor@boicey.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:54:29 -0500
doug@dougbraun.com wrote:
> What I really want is are tracks that rise almost vertically almost to the 
>ceiling,
> and then travel only a couple of feet horizontally, well out of the way of 
>the car lift.

   Do you care about weatherproofing? With many doors, the last bit of 
travel makes the top part of the door "jam" forward and seal the door. 
If the door was vertical the first few feet, you likely wouldn't be able 
  to have a tight seal or it would scrape the seal off in a few cycles.

   I've sent pics of my setup to the list a few times, but basically I 
modified my tracks so that the "horizontal" part at the top of the door 
wasn't horizontal but actually inclined upwards. So over the lift there 
is actually more height.

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Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, trevor@boicey.com
ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/




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