Another one of those annoying little faults you get around the home from time to time, this time involving the garage door.
The garage door has worked very well since we moved in, but every now and then a metal grinding/scraping sound was heard when the door was put up. Strangely no sound was heard when the door was put down. It was very hard to identify exactly where the noise was coming from, and what was rubbing to make the noise. After several days of carefully trying to listen to where the noise was coming from I discovered the noise would disappear for a few days if the garage door was slid to the left (there is a bit of left-right play in the tracks and wheels), then the noise would return again, same as before. I discovered that it was the door rubbing on the wheel where the lifting cable is on the right hand side. There did not appear to be any adjustment that could be made to fix the problem, except to have the door rise and fall slightly left of where it normally ran which meant the door would miss the offending wheel. I purchased two of the smallest hose-clamps available and secured them to the shaft as shown in the adjacent image. This kept the door over to the left of the running track, and avoided any more rubbing on the wheel. Another simple solution costing about $3.00 As a footnote - I recently had a serviceman attend to service the roller door and showed him what I had done. His reply was 'perfect - exactly what I would have done'.
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