A properly balanced garage door is less likely to crush someone or something and keeps your door opener from working too hard.
Homemade roll up garage door opener.
Today i m going to show you how to take your existing conventional garage door opener and convert it to a jackshaft style garage door opener for under 100.
This is generally easy to do as it goes in behind the railing system of the garage door opener.
This was done because i was informed by the garage door company that it was not a way to add a garage door opener to my doors but here is the evidence.
Then lower the door about halfway.