Shaft Style Garage Door Opener

Not every garage is designed to accommodate traditional chain drive screw drive or belt drive garage door openers side mount garage door openers with vaulted or cathedral ceilings with a very low ceiling height or with obstructed ceilings such as those that are used for storing canoes bikes etc.

Shaft style garage door opener.

With our jackshaft conversion kit you can use your existing opener and enjoy all of the convenience of a jackshaft style opener without paying the 700 price tag. A traditional garage door opener requires almost 4 ft. Small garage doors may be made in a single panel that tilts up and back across the garage ceiling. Do you have a conventional liftmaster or chamberlain garage door opener.

A jackshaft opener comes with a safety reversal system. Official liftmaster installation video. Jackshaft garage door openers can only be installed on doors equipped with torsion springs. To open the door the opener spins the shaft.

Here are few of the advantages of a jack shaft garage door opener. A garage door is a large door on a garage that opens either manually or by an electric motor a garage door opener garage doors are frequently large enough to accommodate automobiles and other vehicles. The solid shaft pictured to the right of the hollow shaft comes in 1 and 1 1 4 diameters and is equipped with a fully keyed slot. Garage door shafts couplers we sell solid and hollow shafts as well as couplers for torsion spring systems.

Meanwhile when you are using a jackshaft garage door opener this is not the case. The opener sits at the end of the torsion shaft or tube. A jackshaft garage door opener is best suitable for garages with non traditional ceiling detail. 1 gear 1.

This belt drive garage door opener gives you plenty of lifting power with 2 horsepower and is very quiet according to users that switched from chain drive garage door openers with less power. Do you have a garage door opener with a 1 diameter jackshaft.