Garage Door Cable Length Chart

1 your cable drum manufacture and part 2 the distance from your floor to the centerline of your garage door spring torsion shaft.

Garage door cable length chart.

Most common garage door track. 12 radius 12 required 15 radius 14 25 required. For standard lift residential garage doors the cable length should be the door height plus 18 inches. Designed for garage doors.

Those seven bundles are twisted together to form a cable with a diameter of 1 8 inch. Use the grid below to determine your correct replacement cable length for your garage door cables for doors using torsion springs only. Raw cable of 3 32 1 8 5 32 3 16 and 1 4 diameters is also available. Garage door safety cable is made of galvanized steel and has a 1 8 in.

Regardless of the type of cable selected they should contain some sort of crimp to help the cable sit with the drum. This means there are seven strands in a bundle. The overbuilt 8 ft. You will need some information before beginning.

Standard torsion spring garage door cables are 7 7 strand 1 8 inch thickness. Used for typical applications. Garage door cable comes in multiple different spools and sizes. When measuring an old cable measure the full length including loops spools thimbles and stops.

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