Our garage door opener stopped working, but luckily for us McGyver was in town! Saturday Will & I came back from somewhere, hit the door opener and it opened, parked the car, hit the door closer, but it didn't close. The motor started but the door never moved.
This morning Will & I took it apart and I discovered that one of the plastic gears was not engaging. A friend had suggested perhaps one of them had broken off, but that wasn't the case. Upon closer examination I discovered two pins had fallen out which allowed the gear to spin freely around a shaft instead of engaging to turn it, which in turn, turned the chain to open and close the door. Will found one of the pins on the ground and I put it back in, but it wasn't enough; we needed the other pin. We couldn't find it or anything that would work.....then a McGyver idea came to us!
We used four toothpicks to fill the hole of the pin and now the gear is locked onto the shaft and when it engages with the other gears it turns the shaft, the chain, and opens and closes the door! McGyver is alive and well in Honduras!!!
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