Garage Door Stationary Cone

Start with the stationary cone.

Garage door stationary cone.

How to safely remove cones from a garage door torsion spring. This can be a difficult and challenging. Take the nuts and bolts from the spring anchor bracket. 28 july 2015 categories.

Stationary cone tool 1 3 4 2. Commercial garage door operators. Residential garage door operators. First install the bolts and nuts from the spring anchor bracket in the stationary cone and finger tighten them as pictured here.

Articles if you are replacing a broken torsion spring on your garage door then you have an option to order a new spring with winding and stationary cones already attached. If you grip the bolt threads you will probably strip the threads and have to make a trip to the hardware store to get new bolts. Many garage door owners inquire about the proper way to replace the cones at each end of the door s torsion springs. However in most cases the existing cones are in perfectly good condition and can be used again with a new spring.

The entire apparatus mounts on the header wall above the garage door and has three supports. Drums cones cable accessories. The springs themselves consist of the steel wire with a stationary cone at one end and a winding cone at the other end. A stationary cone is at the opposite end.

A center bearing plate with a steel or nylon bearing and two end bearing plates at both ends. Next grip both nuts in a vise.