Garage Door Safety Rope

Easy to install and it works as designed insert key and pull the lock cylinder out.

Garage door safety rope. The consumer product safety commission commission or cpsc is issuing a final rule amending the regulations for the safety standard for automatic residential garage door operators to reflect changes made by underwriters laboratories inc. Two types of garage door cables. Garage door openers are handy appliances until something goes wrong then they can actually make it harder to open the door. There are two types of garage door cables torsion springs and extension springs.

It has 7 strands with 7 wires per strand for strength and durability and an end to end tensile strength of 1 400 lb. The overbuilt 8 ft. The emergency release cord is there to make sure that doesn t happen. The lanyard is not very long so you must install the lock in one of the top door sections.

Garage door safety cable is made of galvanized steel and has a 1 8 in. Torsion springs are attached above your garage door when it s closed and extension springs are attached on both sides of the upper tracks. Consumer product safety commission. Ul in the entrapment protection provisions.

The emergency release cord is the red rope that hangs from the door trolley. The opener carriage is the automated mechanism that moves the door along the door rail track. Torsion spring helps cable to wind and unwind onto a cable drama. Those safety cables will run through the spring and attach to either the wall or the ceiling.

There is a braided wire lanyard attached to the cylinder at one end and to the door carriage release on the other. The trolley is connected to the door and moves with the door as it opens and closes.