Has anyone in here ever had their garage door opener tear up?

[michaels]

When I hit the button in the garage it sounds like it will work for a split second and then nothing else. Any ideas?

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

make sure nothing is abstructing the door or blocking any safety trips.

adjust the force settings on the unit.

 

[Canun]

My brother had something similar happen. He opened up the case and found that the gear that ran it was plastic. The grooves had all worn off. Wouldn't hurt to check.

 

[Ramma2]

Yeah, mine had plastic gears as well, and when I opened up the case it was full of ground up plastic gear snow! Replaced the whole opener since the old one was quite old.

 

[dullard]

Sounds like either the opener is broken or a spring is broken.

 

[skrilla]

Another case of plastic gear snow here.

I think I ended up replacing the gear and it just happened again. Had a new opener installed and it works great.