Garage Door Cable Length Chart

If you are interested in assembling your own cables we also sell stop sleeves oval sleeves thimbles and spools.

Garage door cable length chart.

For standard lift residential garage doors the cable length should be the door height plus 18 inches. Used for typical applications. Raw cable of 3 32 1 8 5 32 3 16 and 1 4 diameters is also available. Regardless of the type of cable selected they should contain some sort of crimp to help the cable sit with the drum.

Designed for garage doors. Use the grid below to determine your correct replacement cable length for your garage door cables for doors using torsion springs only. 1 your cable drum manufacture and part 2 the distance from your floor to the centerline of your garage door spring torsion shaft. You will need some information before beginning.

Those seven bundles are twisted together to form a cable with a diameter of 1 8 inch. 12 radius 12 required 15 radius 14 25 required. Standard torsion spring garage door cables are 7 7 strand 1 8 inch thickness. This means there are seven strands in a bundle.

When measuring an old cable measure the full length including loops spools thimbles and stops. Garage door cable comes in multiple different spools and sizes. It has 7 strands with 7 wires per strand for strength and durability and an end to end tensile strength of 1 400 lb. There are open loop and thimble along with 5 16 3 8 and 1 2 spools.

Most common garage door track.