Repurpose Old Garage Door Opener

And decided to try to revive the old opener and re purpose it.

Repurpose old garage door opener.

Bench using either wood or metal you can turn your garage door into a beautiful outdoor bench. Any experience good or bad repurposing parts from a 14 year old genie or similar garage door opener. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. The doors stopped moving even though the motor still ran.

The carvings and designs of a wooden garage door will look awesome as a bed headboard. Seems a shame to chuck the old components sensors remotes keypad board motor if any parts could should be repurposed for another use. After the screw drive shaft snapped ive now replaced with a quieter belt drive model. This thread is archived.

Old genie garage door opener duration. Repurposed garage door opener a while back one of our craftsman 1 2 hp chain drive garage door openers stopped functioning properly. The design of the garage door panels will look awesome and classy. Simply cut pieces from your door sand them and prime them to paint your panels whatever color you choose.

Repurpose for the mechanically inclined your old but still working garage door opener can be a motor to power a number of projects including a dumb waiter for transporting groceries from the garage to the kitchen for example or any number of creative motorized inventions. All it takes is creativity and imagination. Use one of the panels as a headboard for a bed. Whether kept intact or broken into smaller parts an old garage door has myriad potential second lives.

Garage door opener posted in hardware. Has anyone here created a project with a garage door opener motor. Genie chainmax 1000 side mount conversion jackshaft garage door opener jackshaft duration. A garage door with glass panels is especially perfect so that the sunlight gets in but you can also add new glass to the old panels of your door.

So i like to use the motor for some type of project. The list of the things you can do with your old garage door in this article is not exhaustive. I have an old garage door opener that was given to me after i purchased a new one. A quick inspection revealed that the sprocket on top of the unit sheared off the shaft.