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How to fix garage door cable drum.
When it is attached use your vise grip once again to turn the shaft and tighten the cable around the drum one last time.
Leave the locking pliers in place and repeat the tightening procedure on the other side.
Be sure not to over tighten the drum.
This could be the issue.
Rotate the drum to wind the cable into the winding grooves.
This can be an easy fix.
Garage door crooked and the cable came off.
Snap a locking pliers onto the torsion tube to lock it into place while you tighten the drums.
Garage door cables can spin off.
This can be an easy fix.
Most of the time your able to do i.
Is your cable off on your garage door.
Pull the cable as tight as possible before tightening the setscrews.
Sometimes your garage door will close on top of an object and the cable on that side will pop off.
Garage door cables can spin off.