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Kind folks of sigforum. Please help. What is this. How do I get it off. Before it drives me nuts.  image hosting private NRA Training Counselor NRA Benefactor Member | ||
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Looks like a screw through the lock arm to me. Prior owner disabled it to prevent accidentally locking it? The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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It's a lock out screw to prevent the garage door lock from being engaged when using an electric door opener. Should just back out using a socket, looks like 5/16". Regards, Kent j You can learn something from everyone you meet, If nothing else you can learn you don't want to be like them It's only racist to those who want it to be. It's a magazine, clips are for potato chips and hair | |||
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I’m not handy. But I can assure you. It won’t back out. I’ve tried eveything. NRA Training Counselor NRA Benefactor Member | |||
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OK. Remove the entire assembly from the door. Visegrips on the head, break it off, as if you were trying to unscrew it. Break off other end same way. File/grind both sides flat. | |||
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Looks like it's made of soft metal. Take a drill slightly larger than the portion screwed through the bar. Drill the head (use a punch to center the drill) until you're through the bar. Then find out why the previous owner installed it in the first place. Get a slightly larger tap and bolt. Let me help you out. Which way did you come in? | |||
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Some openers will damage or be damaged if the lock engages the door and then the opener is energized. The screw prevents it from being engaged, other people wrap them with wire or tie straps. The bolt is more likely to not fail. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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But if you need to lock the door. What would you do? That comment about taking it off and figuring out why it went on was not lost on me...... NRA Training Counselor NRA Benefactor Member | |||
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My solution lacks, hmm, sublety. I say hit it with an 8# sledgehammer, repeatedly if needed. | |||
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Using the locking mechanism and the remote door opener are not mutually exclusive, mechanically. They're only mutually exclusive because of the human condition. Because you are human, if you want to continue to use your remote garage door opener, then you do NOT want to remove the screw. Eventually you will fuck up your remote garage door opener if you do remove it. If you never again plan to use your remote garage door opener (ie: it's broken/burned out, or you remove it), then go ahead and remove the screw. This will enable you to use the locking mechanism at will. But if you remove the screw thinking "I'm smart enough to NEVER try to use the remote garage door opener when the locking arm is engaged!", then you will eventually have a very unpleasant surprise when you forget that you locked the garage door, or if someone else locks the garage door without you knowing about it. It's only money. Go ahead and try to be perfect, NOT human, and see what happens. Maybe you're better than the rest of us. . . Thanks, Sap | |||
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God I love honesty. Now I can not think about it.... ever again. Thank you to everyone. NRA Training Counselor NRA Benefactor Member | |||
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Does it turn but not back out, or does it not turn? | |||
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Tanerite. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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It's self tapping and stripped. You need something behind it to put pressure against it pushing out while you ratchet on it from the other side. I would try a small piece of plywood and a steel flat bar. Once it gets a grip again it will continue on its own. | |||
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When I go out of town, I bolt my garage door and unlock the garage door opener from the carrier so it cannot try to open the door in case I have a senile moment. OP, if you hit that bolt with a 1/4" impact driver it should unscrew it right out. OR, just unbolt the entire lock and replace it. Those locking bolt mechanisms are like $20 and will save you a lot of time and headache if you can't get the bolt out. | |||
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When we left home for a while, vacation etc., I would use the garage door locking thingy and disengage (or turn power off) the garage door opener Not 100% foolproof, but fairly foolresistant. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Only the strong survive |
I had a co-worker that had some bad neighbors so he used a storage oscilloscope to store the signal of the neighbors garage door openers. Then he played games with their mind by opening the garage door at times. One neighbor even replaced his system thinking it was defective.  I put a key lock on my garage door and don't even use the garage door openers. 41 | |||
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thin skin can't win |
Unless you need to latch the garage door with that slide, leave it alone and move on to the other OCD projects surely lurking inside. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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Take the latch off and go buy another one. They are all the same and Lowes and Home Depot carry them. I think they are under Ten bucks. Regards, Kent j You can learn something from everyone you meet, If nothing else you can learn you don't want to be like them It's only racist to those who want it to be. It's a magazine, clips are for potato chips and hair | |||
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We can be friends. NRA Training Counselor NRA Benefactor Member | |||
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