Roll Up Door Tension Adjustment

Selecting light duty roll up doors designed for quick and easy tension adjustments.

Roll up door tension adjustment.

With the door in the open position simply insert a standard 5 16 allen wrench into the exposed drive and adjust clockwise to reduce tension or counterclockwise to increase tension. Roll up doors commercial door garage door overhead steel door roll up shed door and roll up barn door. In this video chris shows you how to remove or add tension to trac rite roll up door springs. To make sure you achieve the right tension adjust the spring by one hole at a time.

The amount of tension required may vary slightly. Final adjustment if necessary will be made in step 10. The tension set bracket found on the dbci 650 and 690 series is the first of its kind making adjusting roll up doors safer easier and faster. Many roll up doors feature brackets that hold the tension in a winding bar that s manually controlled during adjustments.

It s important to examine the roll up door s tension set bracket to determine how easy and safe adjustments will be. Adjust both springs equally one at a time if your door was balanced. It enables experienced maintenance personnel to self adjust the door within minutes unlike the older roll up doors that lack tension adjusters and require a door technician to make any changes. Model 650 750 tension device adjustment over a period of time it is possible for the springs to relax.

As roll up doors age the springs may relax somewhat and require adjustment to properly assist in lifting the door. Once you ve moved the hook to its new location replace the nut on the back and use the wrench to tighten the hook into place. Brackets and tensioner already in place. Step 7 apply initial tension to the door springs start with the bottom bar angle at the bottom of the curtain roll and use a pipe wrench to rotate the axle approximately 1 turn to pre tension the door.

Economical roll up doors. If you want to use a drill attachment be sure it s a variable speed drill set at a low speed.