chrisfromc137
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Edit: I hear you loud and clear! I will not remove the bracket. Thank you for confirming my suspicions.
May 17, 2023 8:19 PM
chrisfromc137
505
24
7
Edit: I hear you loud and clear! I will not remove the bracket. Thank you for confirming my suspicions.
LookingForDwightSchrute
scifinovelist
Not funny, -1
invaderjak
@OP, Do not do anything with that garage door if you value your life and limbs! I vowed to stop posting to protest the imgur TOS change, but your post brought me back, garage doors are extremely dangerous!!!!
TheobromineAddict
As a handyman, I've replaced a number of springs like that, but I quit that particular work because it felt like I was working with live grenades.
ChanceVLuck
DO NOT MESS WITH THOSE SPRINGS. They have enough stored energy to kill or seriously injure you.
ispendtomuchtimehere
way I heard it..deadly as fuck..
xedrik
These springs can and will fuck you up or kill you before you can even register what's happening. This is one of those DIY cases where, if you have to ask, you are unqualified to do this job and, for your own sake and others, you are better off leaving this one to the licensed pros.
theskepticinme
Yes. Big danger
Timmy79
Rather explosively I'd imagine
horseman05
Possibly with Devastating Explosive results. People have been killed by those springs.Call a professional.
hufflesnuff
Seriously not worth messing around with those things.
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unremarkableasterisk
If in doubt, don't. That tension can kill you and anyone else in the garage. (cap that electrical junction box too)
cosinewave
Yes, and it might be the last thing you ever do.
Mawbell
Do not fuck with garage door springs, you will find out
BallsLikeWatermelonsPeckerLikeAThimble
Reckon it looks like it would. That ol’ spring might sprung.
OldGuss
Is there a bar inside the springs?
TheobromineAddict
There is a rotating tube that they are strung on. One end of each spring is clamped to the tube, the other end of the spring is attached to the stationary bracket in the middle. So they wind and unwind as the door goes up and down. They are under maximum man-killing tension when the door is down.
moecurlylarry
SomethingCatchyLater
Please don't touch it!!
chewybrian
These things kill people and we shouldn't joke about it without making that very clear
toledontohinope
valerinism
If you have never had the displeasure of having one of these break, consider yourself lucky. When they go, they do it all at once. Sounds like a gun shot and you will have to clean your shorts afterwards. And hopefully no people or pets are under the door when it goes. SERIOUS injury or death is the result.
JoshuaFalken
As everyone else said, call a garage door company. It's not worth the $200 bucks you'll save doing it yourself.
MartianWeasel
Zapathasura
I dont know mate but anything with a wound spring can go from zero to ED in a heartbeat. I'd definetly ask a professional before even going near that thing.
MrNohbdy
Zero to erectile dysfunction? What an odd scale to use
Zapathasura
It's the scale I use for practically everything that is dangerous. Because let's face it, Getting lacerated by a spring and prossibly killed is sort of a mood killer. Unless you get off at that sort of thing.