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Things just don’t last… The original garage door in this ‘62 house started falling apart on me. (No, I didn’t acquire it when I was 10, we bought it in ‘91.) It was a traditional four panel design with glass at eye level. It was pretty heavy. The glass had been painted over before we got it but that just provided privacy, the infrared light came right through and it could be very hot but it worked well enough. Until the end of April.
I had just unloaded from a day at the field and went to shut the door. About 3/4 of the way down it jammed. When I pushed a little harder, the bottom ripped off. Time for a new garage door. Before that could be done, I had to clear out the back half of my shop. All airplanes were moved to the TV room or stored in my minivan. The building board were covered boxes and tools. It took a while to coordinate time with my son-in-law but we ( and by “we” I mostly mean him) got a new door installed. I got an insulated four panel from Lowe’s. It’s much lighter than the old door and the insulation is a godsend. It may be spring but a west facing garage door gets hot pretty easy. This is my busy travel season but I finally managed to get everything back in order and working on models again. Besides putting in a new door, I have also been doing some rearranging to get more useful space that had been lost to, essentially, inertia. ImagesView all Images in thread |
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