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.

Garage door cable length chart. 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. 1 your cable drum manufacture and part 2 the distance from your floor to the centerline of your garage door spring torsion shaft. 12 radius 12 required 15 radius 14 25 required.

Raw cable of 3 32 1 8 5 32 3 16 and 1 4 diameters is also available. These cables have a strong weight capacity of 1 650 pounds. You will need some information before beginning. Regardless of the type of cable selected they should contain some sort of crimp to help the cable sit with the drum.

Those seven bundles are twisted together to form a cable with a diameter of 1 8 inch. Garage door safety cable is made of galvanized steel and has a 1 8 in. There are open loop and thimble along with 5 16 3 8 and 1 2 spools. Most common garage door track.

Used for typical applications. Standard torsion spring garage door cables are 7 7 strand 1 8 inch thickness. This means there are seven strands in a bundle. It has 7 strands with 7 wires per strand for strength and durability and an end to end tensile strength of 1 400 lb.

The overbuilt 8 ft.