When we bought our house three years ago, it came with an ancient garage door opener which must have been made back in the mid-late 90s. We never bothered replacing it because it worked just fine. Well, a couple months ago, it broke completely and we just manually lifted and lowered the garage door rather than replace it to save money.
Lately, I've been on a kick of learning to repair stuff (starting with a nine year old iPod classic), so I decided today to try tackling this garage door opener. It was so old that I had trouble finding manuals online and there weren't any websites with repair instructions, but lo and behold, there was a tutorial on YouTube. Once again, repairing a device myself was really easy once I knew what I was doing.
Our society teaches us that we need to pay "experts" to fix stuff for us, but, honestly, there is so much you can do yourself. If you are on this forum, then you are an intelligent person. With very few exceptions, you are completely capable of repairing stuff yourself. You will save a lot of money and learn new skills and that's a very good thing.
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