Repurpose Garage Door Opener Motor

Just take a look at these great projects that use repurposed garage doors.

Repurpose garage door opener motor.

The original style of garage door opener opened and closed with a chain drive. Whether kept intact or broken into smaller parts an old garage door has myriad potential second lives. Has anyone here created a project with a garage door opener motor. Repurposed garage door opener a while back one of our craftsman 1 2 hp chain drive garage door openers stopped functioning properly.

New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. You can also use an old garage door opener for practical jokes as shown in this old canadian tv show start 3 25 in. This simple yet clever idea allows you to use panels from your existing garage door to create a unique jacket or key holder to hang by your front door. Not knowing any better and being under a time crunch to get the.

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. The doors stopped moving even though the motor still ran. It can swoop out of trees with the press of a button. 94 points 7 years ago.

A quick inspection revealed that the sprocket on top of the unit sheared off the shaft. Use your old garage door system to rig up a scary flying ghost. Low difficulty ideas to repurpose your garage door jacket or key holder for the entryway. I reversed the motor in mine and turned it into a garage door closer.

This thread is archived.