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Title: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: HaRuMaN on December 01, 2015, 04:50:34 pm: Motor's still good, just replaced for a newer, far far quieter model.

Anyone ever re-purposed an old opener?
Title: Re: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: BorgDog on December 01, 2015, 06:17:22 pm: You could rotate a really big crt in a cab with one of those!
Title: Re: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: johnrt on December 01, 2015, 06:21:08 pm: Quote from: BorgDog on December 01, 2015, 06:17:22 pm
You could rotate a really big crt in a cab with one of those!
OR: You could rotate the whole cab!
Title: Re: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: shponglefan on December 01, 2015, 07:15:48 pm: Breaking Bad finale. 'nuff said. ;D
Title: Re: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: BadMouth on December 01, 2015, 08:11:47 pm: You need an elite dangerous sim with a motorized canopy that closes after you get in.

EDIT: ....you have mentioned having a Virtual On control panel. Big robots=big clunky motor sounds.
Title: Re: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: SlammedNiss on December 01, 2015, 11:01:42 pm: You have to ask?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP5AuDpgBX4&t=1m51s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP5AuDpgBX4&t=1m51s)
Title: Re: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: HaRuMaN on December 02, 2015, 08:41:41 am: Quote from: shponglefan on December 01, 2015, 07:15:48 pm
Breaking Bad finale. 'nuff said. ;D

Haha, I had forgot about that!
Title: Re: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: HaRuMaN on December 02, 2015, 08:42:01 am: Quote from: SlammedNiss on December 01, 2015, 11:01:42 pm
You have to ask?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP5AuDpgBX4&t=1m51s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP5AuDpgBX4&t=1m51s)

o_O
Title: Re: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: harveybirdman on December 02, 2015, 10:00:26 am: The funniest thing I saw was some lazy bastard rigged his to close his bedroom door so he didn't have to get out of bed to tune out his family....

Can crusher, gate opener, or target retriever, seem to be the popular choices.
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Post by: pbj on December 02, 2015, 10:17:24 am: I'd say rig it to continuously move targets you can shoot at.
Title: Re: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: vwalbridge on December 02, 2015, 10:32:11 am: Probably more trouble that it is worth but...

(skip to 0:30 to see it in action)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Suxq8fmj0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Suxq8fmj0)
Title: Re: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: johnrt on December 02, 2015, 10:53:39 am: Quote from: vwalbridge on December 02, 2015, 10:32:11 am
Probably more trouble that it is worth but...
Since when became THAT an issue? :lol
Title: Re: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: vwalbridge on December 02, 2015, 10:56:15 am: Quote from: johnrt on December 02, 2015, 10:53:39 am
Quote from: vwalbridge on December 02, 2015, 10:32:11 am
Probably more trouble that it is worth but...
Since when became THAT an issue? :lol

touché :lol
Title: Re: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: Token on December 02, 2015, 02:08:53 pm: Use it to convert your car doors to gullwing! (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3bZIcMcSXZk)
Title: Re: What to do with an old garage door opener?
Post by: Howard_Casto on December 02, 2015, 02:23:23 pm: Red Green... love that guy.

The bad boys really have some torque. I say you need one of them fancy secret lairs and use that to move the book case or bronze statue of Taft in his custom bathtub or something.

On that note they really need to offer a life-sized statue of Howard Taft in his tub people would come over and be like "What's with the creepy fat dude statue?" and you'd stand up, put your hand on your heart and say "Show a little respect! That's our 27th President!"
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Post by: nitrogen_widget on December 15, 2015, 01:49:37 pm: I plan to use one to slide the top off my hot tub.
Once I get one.
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Post by: DaOld Man on December 15, 2015, 02:07:40 pm: That "C Beam" he speaks of in the video sure looks to me like Uni-Strut channel.