Garage doors – avoiding limbo and lumbago
Is
it just me or are some children naturally perverse? I said “Don’t try to open the ‘up-and-over’
garage door by lifting one corner – use the handle in the centre”. But advice from parents is often “In one ear,
and out the other”, and in the case of this door it proved to be “In one runner
and out the other” – one of the little wheels had jumped out of its track and
now the door was well and truly stuck.
Fortunately
it was open just enough to allow me to crawl underneath (a certain loss of
dignity here), and prise the running wheel back into its channel and get it
open just enough to get the car out.
After one glance at the rather formidable looking counter-balance
springs, and thinking about how they might suddenly “un-spring”, I decided that
in this case, a repair was best left to an expert.
So,
I think the phrase “Sense of humour failure” is probable quite apt when the
subject of garage doors is mentioned. However
back at work, I see that we at Mecmesin have helped out a French manufacturer
of garage doors to improve their Quality Control by testing the raw material
and the finished product to make sure that their doors always perform
perfectly. If only my door had been one
of theirs I wouldn’t have needed to re-boot my sense of humour when my
colleague suggested I take up limbo dancing.
Take
a look at how we helped the French company by following this link:
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