Originally Posted by
Corey Friedman
They fail or refuse to realize that the contact reversal pertains to entrapment issues and was never designed to prevent injury, only to prevent entrapment. Thus, they do stupid things like standing under the door and stop it half way down with their hands.
Amen to that.
Here's some trivia for you. Circa 1950-1970, A-1 garage doors in Chicago (no longer around) made the 1-piece slab doors that would swing up and out, usually with giant springs on the sides that were vertical and pulled up from the floor...my dad made those doors. Of course there were others
Corey,
I'm sure that the garage door I had like that in Gainesville, Florida 35 years ago was not an A-1, but it was one which operated like that.
Cool! Your dad made doors like that!
I've always wanted one like that which, instead of swinging up and into the garage, would swing up and create a 'protected area outside the garage' underneath the raised door. Would make a great place for the 'shade tree mechanic to work' and not have to disturb what is in the garage.
I'm sure that could be done, but it would take some larger cantilever braces and larger springs to hold that 16 foot wide, 7 foot projection up there.
