Number of turns needed to wind a torsion spring.
Garage door spring number of turns.
High lift doors rise vertically some times a distance as short as a foot or more sometimes more than half the door height and then the door rides in the horizontal tracks.
The stretch of an extension spring is always the door height.
Multiply the number of turns by the wire diameter to find spring growth.
Measure a length of the spring then divide by the number of coils within that length.
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Always convert torsion springs to a spring of equal or greater wire diameter.
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This completes a total of seven spring turns adequate for a standard garage door.
When you count 30 turns you should know that you have completed the remaining five turns.
Multiply the wire diameter by the total number of coils in the spring.