Garage Door Open Spring Just Broke - Was Very Scared! - Page 3

SIN R G · 07-13-2014, 11:40 PM

Back in about 1981 I was out on a Saturday night drinking with my buddies. I got home about 2 pm, drove my 1979 Corvette in the garage and hit the remote to close the garage door. I got out of the Corvette and the door to go in the house was right there. Opened the door to step up into the kitchen and there was a super loud bang that sounded like a shot gun going off and I felt something brush the back of my pants leg. It scared the shit out of me. At the time I was living with my parents, it was so loud it woke both of them up. I tuned the light on in the garage to see the garage door spring laying on the floor. That spring hit the wall so hard it went threw the drywall and you could see a tiny dent in the siding from the outside. Scares me to this day thinking what it would have done to me if I would have been just one second slower. Oh, and it never touched the Corvette. Whew......

mpiersd · 07-29-2014, 02:32 PM

Had the same thing happen years back at our fire house. My Dad and I had gone down to service one of the trucks and the spring broke as the door was going up.
Bounced off the hood of our brush truck and went flying right where I had been standing just seconds before.
We had safety lines added to all the springs when the company came out and replaced the one.

07-29-2014, 02:32 PM	#30
mpiersd Drives: ABM #2041 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Yorktown, VA Posts: 1,561 View My Garage	Had the same thing happen years back at our fire house. My Dad and I had gone down to service one of the trucks and the spring broke as the door was going up. Bounced off the hood of our brush truck and went flying right where I had been standing just seconds before. We had safety lines added to all the springs when the company came out and replaced the one. __________________ Retired United States Army Bernadette: 2LT/RS, ABM #2041 of 3903 ZL-1 Springs \| CAI \| Muffler delete \| Magnaflow resonator \| LED DRL \| RX Catch Can \| Mini me Cortana: 2015 Harley Davidson Road Glide Special V&H Power Duals Headers & Oversized 450 Raider mufflers \| Screamin' Eagle Stage 1 Chisel Extreme intake \| Screamin' Eagle Stage 1 programmer Gretchen: 1994 Ford F350 Crew Cab Long Bed 4x4 51k mile survivor Own an Aqua Blue Metallic Camaro? Click here to join us on Facebook and help us in establishing the Aqua Blue Registry to locate all 3903 of these beautiful Camaros!

07-13-2014, 11:40 PM	#29
SIN R G Drives: 2008 VW R32, 2011 Synergy Green 2SS Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Randolph, Wisconsin Posts: 1,544	Back in about 1981 I was out on a Saturday night drinking with my buddies. I got home about 2 pm, drove my 1979 Corvette in the garage and hit the remote to close the garage door. I got out of the Corvette and the door to go in the house was right there. Opened the door to step up into the kitchen and there was a super loud bang that sounded like a shot gun going off and I felt something brush the back of my pants leg. It scared the shit out of me. At the time I was living with my parents, it was so loud it woke both of them up. I tuned the light on in the garage to see the garage door spring laying on the floor. That spring hit the wall so hard it went threw the drywall and you could see a tiny dent in the siding from the outside. Scares me to this day thinking what it would have done to me if I would have been just one second slower. Oh, and it never touched the Corvette. Whew......