Garage Door Safety Rope

Consumer product safety commission.

Garage door safety rope.

The overbuilt 8 ft. Garage door safety cable is made of galvanized steel and has a 1 8 in. For 7 ft 8 ft 10 ft. It has 7 strands with 7 wires per strand for strength and durability and an end to end tensile strength of 1 400 lb.

Attach to shuttle or carriage assembly. The consumer product safety commission commission or cpsc is issuing a final rule amending the regulations for the safety standard for automatic residential garage door operators to reflect changes made by underwriters laboratories inc. Garage door openers are handy appliances until something goes wrong then they can actually make it harder to open the door. The emergency release cord is the red rope that hangs from the door trolley that moves with the door along the rail.

Compatible with all genie garage door. Roughly 48 hours after the discovery federal authorities said video confirmed the rope was in that garage as early as october 2019 hanging from a garage door. The emergency release cord is there to make sure that doesn t happen. The trolley sits on the opener carriage.

When the release cord is pulled it disconnects the trolley from the carriage allowing you to manually move the door. Made of galvanized steel for reliability. Once it s attached pull the rope to disconnect your garage door operator. The red replacement safety cord is 46 inches long and it will work with garage doors that are 7 feet 8 feet or 10 feet high.

The rope was referred to as a. Ul in the entrapment protection provisions. Below are some simple instructions so you know exactly how to quickly reset your garage door.