Measure Wound Garage Door Spring

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Measure wound garage door spring.

Plug end extension spring is a holmes spring replacement for heavier 1 piece tilt up canopy style garage doors. You also need to know the size of the wire itself. When you measure a garage door spring it s not enough to simply take a tape measure and record the length from one end to the other. Take all your measurements from the broken spring.

Measure the overall length of your garage door spring unwound. Inside diameter 90 of doors have a 2 0 inside diameter 3. Spring orientation if ordering just one spring left wound or right wound. If you have 1 1 4 inches in a 10 coil count the wires are 0 125.

Generally when looking from within the garage if the spring is on the left side it is right wound and vice versa. What can we say it can appear a bit complicated. Plug end extension spring is a p528 28 in. While this might seem difficult to comprehend measuring the wire size is actually as easy as running a tape measure along the distance between 10 and 20 coils.

For other measurements talk to a garage door repair professional or find a 10 coil measurement chart online. Measure the spring only from coil to coil. Door with an initial tension of 165 lbs. Here s how to tell if your garage door torsion spring is a left wound spring or a right wound spring as seen from the back of the door.

For example on a seven foot high garage door a 34 spring comprised of 250 wire would grow eight coils when it is wound and stretched. To measure the wire size measure the length of 10 coils of the spring. They call it a right spring but when you are looking at the door from the inside it goes on the left side and vice versa. The spring will grow 7 5 coils or 7 5 x 250 for the coil size or 1 7 8.

Spring length how long each spring is 4. Two p528 springs one on each side of the door can handle a 105 lbs. Click this link to go to our garage door torsion springs ad. Springs are usually stretched an extra 1 8 so the total addition to the spring length is eight coils or two inches.