Recent content by Robert Gift

WEAR GLOVES and goggles and thick winter coat and hard hat. If something slips or goes wrong, there will be less chance of your being injured. When one spring broke I wound our springs well aware of the danger. "99% of the people that get hurt doing this stuff, earned every bit of it." Funny...

Thank you. What is a limit switch? I was thinking of installing a magnet on a pawl on the top end of the door. It would connect with another magnet glued to the toggle switch lever. When the garage dooreaches full open, the magnet would push the toggle switch ON to illuminate the green lamp...

Our Expedition is an emergency vehicle with Streethawk light bar on the top. If the garage door is not FULLY open, or does not fully open, the light bar could be damaged while severely damaging the garage door. Any ideas how to install switches which willuminate the traffic signalamps according...