84" Garage door pain.

[Isimmo]

I suspect many of you have been here before, but i'll share.
Our up and over garage door decided to break a wire.

I bought a spindle and cone kit for £18 quid... I've done it before, how hard can it be?

Weeelll, for starters, the new spindles in the pack weren't machined for the spring clip, then the old cone spring cotter pin fell apart as I tried to drive it out, the door decided to act like a 200lb dead flatfish, then the spring tensioner would only tension one side until I torgued it up to launch the next apollo mission and flooded it with WD40, staining the fibreglass, then I smashed seven bails of shit out my right thumb, it probably needs a stitch or two, but whatever, then, finally, after five hours of fine tuning the spring and cables like a badly behaved Bosch K Jet fuel injection, it slowly, ever so slowly capitulated until it now works once again like a normal garage door.

£18 quid and 5 hours of misery ...

Lovely Saturday....

I'm thinking £250 with a garage door specialist would have been money well spent.