In that case at the top of the top section there will be two little wheels that follow a different track to the others and provide the downward force on the door seel strip when closed, simply loosen the adjusters off close the door then retighten them, it doesn't take much to force the motor to reverse
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In that case at the top of the top section there will be two little wheels that follow a different track to the others and provide the downward force on the door seel strip when closed, simply loosen the adjusters off close the door then retighten them, it doesn't take much to force the motor to reverse
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As a matter of interest my neighbour had trouble with her door opening for no reason, finally she got in an engineer who said the frequency was changed in the last couple of years and he had found taxis using radios had been causing this to happen.
Might just be waffle but since he fitted a new unit on the new frequency the problem seems to have been solved.
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Reading this post seems that the OP who mentioned the radio frequency problem / change may be on to the "haunted" answer. Have you called the specialists in the trade ? http://www.garage-door-automation.co.uk/
Might be a first call to make, for the best advice in sorting it out.
Might be a first call to make, for the best advice in sorting it out.
I think the OP has already made the first, and undoubtedly cheapest, call - given that his door is still under warranty!
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Yes, I know! I'm v.glad door is under warranty (2 yrs). And we are in the wilds of N. Oxon here so very few taxis ever come down the lane, in fact I don't think I've ever seen one, so no radio signals to interfere.
Indeed. If you're in north Oxon, you must be pretty close to me. I'm in 'north Bucks', just a few hundreds yards from the nearest bit of Oxon!
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Ah! but what about UFO's any crop circles your way? 
No moi dearr, that be morr in Wiltshire.Ah! but what about UFO's any crop circles your way?
The farmers round here would be livid if their crops were flattened!
If anyone is still tuning in, the garage door men came today and increased the power to the motor (to take account of the heavier door) and re-learned the system, whatever that means! At least there was something to be done as I felt a bit of a fraud - of course it behaved itself when they were here.
That sounds right. The level of motor current that indicates obstruction was increased to allow the motor to move the door through to the closed position without the obstruction detection being triggered by sticky parts of the movement.
RAF Upper Heyford?
Were you thinking of radio signals? - if so they would have had to have been travelling an awfully long way around the cosmos before getting back to the garage door a couple of decades later! The USAF left the place in about 1993 and the RAF base finally closed in, IIRC, 1994. It is currently gradually disintegrating and 'returning to nature' whilst people argue about what to do with the site (which I think still belongs to the MoD). Prior to 1993, radio signals were the least of our problems - it was F-111s seemingly a few feet above the trees in and around our garden which was the main issue
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I didn't know it was closed.
They should build houses¹ on the site.
¹ And shops, pubs, schools, doctor's surgeries....
They should build houses¹ on the site.
¹ And shops, pubs, schools, doctor's surgeries....
That has, needless to say, been one of the proposals. Equally needless to day, there are dissenters from that view **. Have said that, most/all of the original RAF/USAF residential accommodation (and shops etc.) are still being used residentially. However, all the runway areas and other military building are potentially up for grabs.
** it's undoubtedly going to get increasingly difficult. Some of the shelters/hangers on the site have have become Scheduled Monuments, and a number of 'protected species' have taken up residence on/around the old runways! I foresee decades of debate/argument!
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Some of the runways and hardstandings are used by a car storage company. We passed thru there a few weeks ago and there are signs of development - developers boards, etc.
It's a really odd place - I'd think it would make a good film set. There's still evidence of USAF occupation, viz. the commissary, laundromat and a credit union building, plus those nice yellow fire hydrants they have in films!
My friend used to picket the place in the 1980's and swears Thatcher had her phone bugged!
It's a really odd place - I'd think it would make a good film set. There's still evidence of USAF occupation, viz. the commissary, laundromat and a credit union building, plus those nice yellow fire hydrants they have in films!
My friend used to picket the place in the 1980's and swears Thatcher had her phone bugged!
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