Repurpose Garage Door Opener Motor

A quick inspection revealed that the sprocket on top of the unit sheared off the shaft.

Repurpose garage door opener motor.

Use your old garage door system to rig up a scary flying ghost. It can swoop out of trees with the press of a button. The original style of garage door opener opened and closed with a chain drive. Low difficulty ideas to repurpose your garage door jacket or key holder for the entryway.

I reversed the motor in mine and turned it into a garage door closer. Repurpose for the mechanically inclined your old but still working garage door opener can be a motor to power a number of projects including a dumb waiter for transporting groceries from the garage to the kitchen for example or any number of creative motorized inventions. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. With a bit of creativity you can make many useful things from old garage door and garage openers.

This simple yet clever idea allows you to use panels from your existing garage door to create a unique jacket or key holder to hang by your front door. If you can see something that looks like a bicycle chain near the motor unit of your opener consider replacing it with a screw driver or belt drive garage door opener. This thread is archived. Repurposed garage door opener a while back one of our craftsman 1 2 hp chain drive garage door openers stopped functioning properly.

94 points 7 years ago. You can also use an old garage door opener for practical jokes as shown in this old canadian tv show start 3 25 in. Has anyone here created a project with a garage door opener motor. Simply cut pieces from your door sand them and prime them to paint your panels whatever color you choose.

Whether kept intact or broken into smaller parts an old garage door has myriad potential second lives.