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My 6 has a new home…

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Gliderman8

Gliderman8

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….No I didn’t sell it!
I added an additional garage and storage space onto my house. Now my TR6 and his Italian scooter friends have their own garage and that lets me park my daily driver in the open garage.
Also installed new garage doors and paved driveway.
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NutmegCT said:
Looks great! (but you need to clean off the dirty license plates ...)
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I have a bottle of pixel cleaner that will take that dirt right off.
 
Very nice! What are the badges underneath the “Triumph” badge?


Edit; I think I see it now: you have the 5sp conversion…?
 
charlie74 said:
Very nice! What are the badges underneath the “Triumph” badge?


Edit; I think I see it now: you have the 5sp conversion…?
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You have a sharp eye! Yes, it’s a 5-speed conversion. I put the badge on the car to honor Herman van den Akker.
 
Grrrr :censored1:.... The new garage door came with a "modern" opener. My other garage has the same opener I bought in 1989.
I wanted a simple pushbutton to operate the door at the front and rear of the garage like I have in my main garage. The opener came with one wall mounted pushbutton. In order to install a second pushbutton in the front of the garage I have to buy the manufacture's wall switch.... you cannot just install a simple momentary switch because the wall switch that came with the opener sends a coded signal to the opener.
Problem solve---- I opened the factory wall switch and removed the printed circuit board then soldered two leads to the switch contacts. I'm going to fish a wire through the wall to the front of the garage and mount a momentary switch. Problem solved.
 
Crafty devil! :devilish:
 
Nice work!

We went through something similar recently. Rather than buy an adapter so an old homelink will work with a new opener I just use the App that the door opener manufacturer provides free of charge. Why is nothing ever easy anymore?
 
charlie74 said:
Nice work!

We went through something similar recently. Rather than buy an adapter so an old homelink will work with a new opener I just use the App that the door opener manufacturer provides free of charge. Why is nothing ever easy anymore?
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I put the remote inside my glove box and wire a momentary pushbutton switch in my car. The switch is hooked up to a 12v relay. I use the COM and NO contacts to operate the remote inside the glovebox. The momentary switch completes the circuit to operate the relay. I use a switched power lead from the fuse box to power the relay. The relay only gets power when the car is running so no-one can break into my car and open the garage door when it is parked. I never have to reach for the remote, I just push the button on the dash.
 
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