The wife called me last night that when she was closing the garage door something broke and its stuck and crooked. Well I get home and yup - its broke alright. Getting thru the garage to have a look at it, not an easy task since the garage is well packed and she just put in a dresser she found on the side of the road I found one of the lift cables had snapped. Now my garage door is OLD and HEAVY. Its at least an inch thick and solid wood and two cars wide. I had to use my floor jack to lift up the broken side so I could get it level out and then I took the jack out to close it up for the night.

Today I go to the local garage door shop and they gave me a new cable for free! Now thats customer service! It took me about an hour to install it. Its working again but I do need to re-tension the two wound coil springs.

Speaking from personal experience, re-tensioning those springs is going to be just TON'* O' FUN!

Bummer!

I hope you got those springs wound up OK. I was going to suggest that you wear eye protection when you do it. A family friend once almost lost his eye when a spring broke while he was rewinding a garage door spring. True story!

Glad you were bale to get it working again.
Very cool they gave you a free cable.
Good luck with the spring

Those springs are dangerous. Be careful!

Yeah be very careful messing with those springs.

Those springs always seem to break at the least opportune time.

WEAR GOGGLES!
And BTW, my Bro'* "personal experience" is an on-going nightmare...
One of the hinges stripped it'* bolts. Dad'* just gonna buy a new door...