Repurpose Garage Door Opener Motor

If you can see something that looks like a bicycle chain near the motor unit of your opener consider replacing it with a screw driver or belt drive garage door opener.

Repurpose garage door opener motor.

Simply cut pieces from your door sand them and prime them to paint your panels whatever color you choose. Use your old garage door system to rig up a scary flying ghost. Just take a look at these great projects that use repurposed garage doors. Repurposed garage door opener a while back one of our craftsman 1 2 hp chain drive garage door openers stopped functioning properly.

94 points 7 years ago. Has anyone here created a project with a garage door opener motor. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. This thread is archived.

Low difficulty ideas to repurpose your garage door jacket or key holder for the entryway. The doors stopped moving even though the motor still ran. With a bit of creativity you can make many useful things from old garage door and garage openers. A quick inspection revealed that the sprocket on top of the unit sheared off the shaft.

Not knowing any better and being under a time crunch to get the. I reversed the motor in mine and turned it into a garage door closer. It can swoop out of trees with the press of a button. 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.

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.