Hi all,
Hope someone can help me fix my garage door opening mechanism. Basically, my old cable that I used to yank to open the garage door snapped. I replaced that with a speaker cable and that hasn't worked out too well the plastic shielding has come away exposing the copper wire which in turn has made it loose so you cant open the garage door when locked from the outside. (Hope im making sense ) I have replaced the speaker cable since with same type but dont know how long it will last, hopefully by then some one can point me in the direction where I can buy the correct cable. Plus is it possible to change the whole thing because the white circle thing you can see has a screw inside to tighten the cable but that screw is sort of rusty and is giving away I doubt how many more turns it could do before it breaks.
I have attached pics to make it more understandable.
Thanks in advance.
Hope someone can help me fix my garage door opening mechanism. Basically, my old cable that I used to yank to open the garage door snapped. I replaced that with a speaker cable and that hasn't worked out too well the plastic shielding has come away exposing the copper wire which in turn has made it loose so you cant open the garage door when locked from the outside. (Hope im making sense ) I have replaced the speaker cable since with same type but dont know how long it will last, hopefully by then some one can point me in the direction where I can buy the correct cable. Plus is it possible to change the whole thing because the white circle thing you can see has a screw inside to tighten the cable but that screw is sort of rusty and is giving away I doubt how many more turns it could do before it breaks.
I have attached pics to make it more understandable.
Thanks in advance.