I locked myself out of my detached garage. The remote to open it no longer works.
It’s a really old garage and the opener is from 1999.
Trying to lift it obviously doesnt work. There’s an emergency release you can activate with a key, but the keyhole is crammed full of old hard metallic paint that I can’t get out.
Anything else I can do? Or do I have do smash the thing down?
Also worth mentioning: if you fuck up the door trying to get into it,
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FIX A GARAGE DOOR YOURSELF!
Light percussive maintenance to bend a panel back into shape is one thing, but never ever try to take one apart if you aren’t qualified. There are dangerous springs under tension that can and will kill you.
Get a professional
Remove the lock cylinder and touch the two wires together. Replace cylinder.
The objective is to open a garage door, not hotwire a car from 1973.
So you don’t know how a keyed switch works. Gotcha.
No garage door uses a keyed switch like that, thanks for playing.
Hey, just checking in. Are you still setting the world ablaze with your knowledge? *edit: oh, my bad. I’m proving a point to someone who couldn’t even handle lemmy.
You could get a new garage door remote. The code should be as little switches on the inside of the old remote.