My workshop disaster

Hi Pards,

The construction project came to a close as far as the door is concerned. Had some electrical problems with one of the beam sensor wires because I may have hammered the insulated staples too hard. Found the shorted wire with my VOM and replaced it. All now works fine except for the remote. I want each door to operate with a different button of my remote. Maybe . . .

Hi Pards,

While this blog is related to my carport construction, there has to be some relaxation.

My foul weather target is close to the ground and the trees that are left are more than a hundred yards distance.








My practice targets seem to have disappeared into the weed growth while I've been working on the carport.















The right image shows the front of the house. Fairly wide at 95 feet, so the picture is difficult to present.










Sure hard to keep up with the blog site and how it posts pictures. But, here's a side view of the carport nearing completion. Keep in mind that this is a temp structure that has a life of less than 10 years.

Haven't had a lot of discretionary time to work on the yard and it shows.


I digress from the carport activity for some mental and well deserved rest of the body.

Hi Pards,

Can't believe I spent near 10 hours on each of Sat. and Sun. and the picture shows so little accomplished. Hanging the door opener drive motor was only a fraction of the time it took to get the unit to run the door in the right direction. I couldn't get it to raise the door, it would only close and was about to damage the door, etc. So, I disconnected the door and the drive chain and ran the motor. Worked just fine. So, I reinstalled everyting with door in what I felt was the down position. Now, it worked like I knew it could! Then, adjust the up/down travel and finally, the reverse force setting. Of course, the electric eyes are taped together just to get the opener running. The button for opening and closing is just hanging. Sure did a lot of ladder climbing these past two days.

A time consuming job was finding the drive rail. Actually, I found two in a small metal shed out back. I installed the old one, leaving the unopened box with the second rail. Found the drive motor and accessories in the garage. Other time consuming activity was just sitting in front of the fan and drying off. What a hot and humid day.

The last effort of the day was to install a tin panel on each side of the door. Tomorrow brings a frightening activity. I watched some CAS pards reverse a carbide blade in a circular saw and cut the tin roofing. Now, it's my turn and I'm a bit leery of the practice. But, I gotta cut the tin.

I think the next pictures will show the front complete with trim and all. Still have other work to do inside, but all the exciting stuff is done! :)

Hi Pards,

Not the greatest installation I ever saw, but . . .

The tin exterior to be installed on each side of the door will give lots of rigidity to the entire frame. Ya got to keep in mind that this is a temp structure. It will keep the weather and possibly vandals away from my junk.

Got the door assembled and it works. A really slow part of the assembly was securing the far ends of the horizontal rails and the spring loaded assist bar.

Next comes the garage door opener that I bought many years ago. Now, where did I put the parts? Then, it's hard to think when the sky is so blue and the weather is hot and humid.