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Garage Door Cables: first off - fuck them.
Secondly:
My garage door cables both snapped this week, new cable arrived today. Matched the parts, it's a Cardale Pro Safelift. Following YouTube videos on the replacement, I manage to do everything as I would have liked, other than when putting on the new cable, the given wisdom seems to be to wrap it 3 times around the drum - this leaves my cable too short to reach the hook. I did it twice instead which left what I felt was too much slack.
I added tension back into the spring, removed the locking pin on the RHS and tried to open the door - there wasn't enough tension in the cables at all - and they both came off the spindles at the bottom.
How can I best adjust this, to make sure I get sufficient cable tension so when I remove the locking pin and try to open the garage, it opens?