<VV> safety wake up

[Bryan Blackwell]

I have similar springs on the attic stairs here - I found a safety  
cable kit at Home Depot that I could adapt to the attic.  If you  
don't want to hassle with swapping your garage door springs, the kit  
was fairly inexpensive.

--Bryan

On Oct 13, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Dennis PLEAU wrote:

> I went to open my folks garage this afternoon and heard a big bang  
> and the door got really heavy.  One of the springs broke.  It  
> didn't hit anybody, but did leave a big dent in an antique  
> carpenters tool box that belonged to my great uncle.  Garage door  
> springs have a lot of energy and the old ones don't have a a cable  
> through them to contain them when they break.  We found a crack in  
> the other spring.  My folks bought the house new in 52, so they  
> have had a lot of cycles on them.  Tonight they have two new  
> springs.  I was opening from the outside, so I was some what  
> protected, being on the inside would have been a lot more  
> exciting.  If you have springs old enough to not have arresting  
> cable through them, you may want to replace them.