Making Things Out Of Old Garage Door Openers

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Making things out of old garage door openers.

How garage door openers work. There s a pretty broad range in this article but hopefully a handful jump out and spark an idea for you and your home. Disposing of a large cumbersome garage door may be. 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.

Look through this simple 20 ideas and learn how to on creative way repurpose reues and upcycle old doors ranging from making a bed to how to build a bookshelf using an old door. If you re planning on improving your home s curb appeal by installing a new garage door don t be so fast to throw out the old one. Hook up your old garage door opener to a projector screen and at the press of a button have a movie theater drop down from the ceiling. Before we get into the details of the vulnerability let s explain a bit about how automatic garage door openers developed.

Hook up the wiring from the unit to the push button control next to the home entry door.