Mean Green
Member Since: 15 Sep 2011
Location: South Ayrshire
Posts: 278
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| Lubricating Gliderol garage door?? | |
Does anyone have a gliderol roller door on their garage/workshop?
I fitted mine about 8 years ago, for the last couple of years it has been giving a loud grinding squeak when it is going up and down which sounds like the spring is dry. I am sure a couple of squirts of lube would do the trick, but I have no idea how I might get it to the spring. I do not fancy monkeying around with the tensioned spring with no idea what I am doing.
Has anyone managed to lubricate the spring?
Now and then it judders badly in the tracks - according to gliderol you should not use any oils or lubricants on the tracks. However I have been so fed up with it jamming I gave it a squirt of spray grease and it is now gliding up and down with no judders and veyr little noise (other than the spring as above). 
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6th Jan 2014 10:00pm |
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marsie
Member Since: 18 Nov 2011
Location: sheffieldish
Posts: 530
 
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On my garage door the tracks are steel but the door has a canvas type strip where it fits in the channel. In the bumph that came with it, it says not to use oil or grease but instead use furniture polish
I give mine a good squirt with pledge once a year and that seems to work fine  . Also if you use the lemon variety it smells nice too 
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6th Jan 2014 10:31pm |
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jimbob7
Member Since: 06 Jul 2013
Location: uk
Posts: 2055
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Use silicon spray because oil,grease or WD40 will just attract more dirt. Pov.spec,ftw. 2006, 110,TD5.
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7th Jan 2014 2:28am |
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