Garage Door Cable Length Chart

Garage door safety cable is made of galvanized steel and has a 1 8 in.

Garage door cable length chart.

Use the grid below to determine your correct replacement cable length for your garage door cables for doors using torsion springs only. The overbuilt 8 ft. Most common garage door track. These cables have a strong weight capacity of 1 650 pounds.

This means there are seven strands in a bundle. When measuring an old cable measure the full length including loops spools thimbles and stops. Designed for garage doors. Standard torsion spring garage door cables are 7 7 strand 1 8 inch thickness.

Those seven bundles are twisted together to form a cable with a diameter of 1 8 inch. 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. 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 comes in multiple different spools and sizes. For standard lift residential garage doors the cable length should be the door height plus 18 inches. You will need some information before beginning. Used for typical applications.

12 radius 12 required 15 radius 14 25 required.