I locked myself out of my detached garage. The remote to open it no longer works.

It’s a really old garage and the opener is from 1999.

Trying to lift it obviously doesnt work. There’s an emergency release you can activate with a key, but the keyhole is crammed full of old hard metallic paint that I can’t get out.

Anything else I can do? Or do I have do smash the thing down?

  • db2
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    41 year ago

    The objective is to open a garage door, not hotwire a car from 1973.

    • @pwalshj
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      11 year ago

      So you don’t know how a keyed switch works. Gotcha.

      • db2
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        11 year ago

        No garage door uses a keyed switch like that, thanks for playing.

        • @pwalshj
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          10 months ago

          Hey, just checking in. Are you still setting the world ablaze with your knowledge? *edit: oh, my bad. I’m proving a point to someone who couldn’t even handle lemmy.