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Garage door release mechanism.
The carriage locks around the opener trolley during normal operation.
Garage door openers have a quick release mechanism that allows you to operate the garage door manually in the event you lose power.
The lock mechanism is installed into a hole on the garage door.
The carriage is the part of the opener to which the door arm connects.
This is the garage door release mechanism that you will need to engage in order to manually lift the door.
The trolley is connected to the door and moves with the door as it opens and closes.
It can be used on virtually any garage door opener.
It involves pulling the garage door rope to allow for manual operation before fully raising the door.
The opener carriage is the automated mechanism that moves the door along the door rail track.
The cable is unrolled and attached to the emergency release lever on the garage door opener s trolley.
There is a garage door accessory called an emergency release kit.
The emergency release cord is the red rope that hangs from the door trolley.
The average american garage door opens and shuts 1500 times a year and this torsion spring rated for 10 000 cycles was positively geriatric in.