Fixing damaged grarage door closing with ramp up, keep, ramp down PETG parts superglued to door
Our RC controlled garage door was damaged by another car, and got fixed initially so that it could be used at all.
Some days ago the door got into horizontal swinging on closing every time, that triggered alarm and made door reopen.
I played a bit and learned that moving door 5mm right from outside with finger makes door close without problem.
So I printed extruded triangles for ramp up and ramp down, 220mm long (diagonally in Pusa Mini+), from 0 to 5mm high, 10mm extruded.
Then I learned I did need 220x5x10mm part in middle and printed that, and that supergluing to metal garage door just worked.
This is photo, because vertical dimensions are so much longer than horizontal, this photo crop is scaled 10× horizontally.
The 5mm just fit into the small free room between garage door right and garage left:
Here is video showing ramp up, keep and ramp down in action.
I searched the web for weight of garage door, and 80kg seems to be a usual weight.
This is first time I did modify motion of such heavy part with just 3Dprinted parts:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mSge4JzDk6E
RE: Fixing damaged grarage door closing with ramp up, keep, ramp down PETG parts superglued to door
Perfectly what I needed to see to help hubby make a repair on his brand new install..... We are DIY'ers and you know how it can go but tomorrow we shall get that taken care of! Thanks for the video.........exactly what we needed!!!!