The Repair That Wasn't

After I returned home from an enjoyable fellowship breakfast with "the men," Karen and I organized our gear and hauled the new-school hardware out to the garage to finalize a plan to repair the top, right roller on our old-school wooden garage door. Everything hinged (no pun intended) on the new roller fitting in the old track.

Here's the old roller.

You may notice the wheel isn't perpendicular to the shaft or in-line with the track any longer. This can make for some exciting moments as I manually lift, raise, and push the door up into the open position and gently lower it back to the ground. Of course, if the wheel does finally separate from the shaft...things will happen kind of quick as that roller is the sole support for the door on the right side.

We had several repair ideas in mind and were rather confident that we could pull something together that would extend the life of the door a little bit longer, but as we spread out the "maybe this could work" hardware and sized the new "standard" roller with the old style "non-standard" roller and track...it was apparent the new roller was too large for the old track. No roller, no repair, no joy.

With the overall condition of the wooden garage door, the fact that no one makes hardware to fit it anymore, combined with the reality that all the other components are worn out as well, it proves to be more cost effective to "spring" for a new door. Get it? Spring? Garage doors have springs...

Lord willing, we'll have a light-weight aluminum door installed before the end of the month. And that will be a blessing.