garage door opener wont work

[Stormin Mormon]

Try the GDO with the belt removed. Motor should spin when the button is pressed.

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[Stormin Mormon]

Makes one wonder why they are ground to useless?

Snow load, or maybe dried out rollers? Door got jammed diagonal?

[clare]

Until the gears "ride up" and jam. Then nothing moves easily (except the motor when the teeth come off the belt) He sais he hears a whirring sound - that's the motor running against the toothless drive belt.

[clare]

Common failure on Chamberlain / Liftmaster openers. They are supposed to be greased - when the grease goes, so do the plastic gears - particularly when they get to be over 20 years old (and I'm thinking that one is pushing 30)

[Stormin Mormon]

Suggests that owners of that brand should so routine maint on their machines? Not just wait till the service engine soon light comes on?

[clare]

They are not designed to be a 50 year unit - but with good servicing they can be. And when you say "that brand", some private brand units

- including craftsman - are made by Chamberlain.

[badgolferman]

This unit was manufactured 05/99.

[clare]

Looks like another product that is getting "cheaper" as the years go by - even if the price is not dropping.

[bob haller]

when replacing a 30 year old opener.

buy and install a brand new opener. you will get a bunch of safety improvements that werent even dramed about when the opener was new

[gfretwell]

Some call them a nightmare