Garage Door Cable Length Chart

Most common garage door track.

Garage door cable length chart.

These cables have a strong weight capacity of 1 650 pounds. Use the grid below to determine your correct replacement cable length for your garage door cables for doors using torsion springs only. When measuring an old cable measure the full length including loops spools thimbles and stops. Used for typical applications.

This means there are seven strands in a bundle. If you are interested in assembling your own cables we also sell stop sleeves oval sleeves thimbles and spools. The overbuilt 8 ft. Standard torsion spring garage door cables are 7 7 strand 1 8 inch thickness.

12 radius 12 required 15 radius 14 25 required. There are open loop and thimble along with 5 16 3 8 and 1 2 spools. Designed for garage doors. Garage door safety cable is made of galvanized steel and has a 1 8 in.

1 your cable drum manufacture and part 2 the distance from your floor to the centerline of your garage door spring torsion shaft. It has 7 strands with 7 wires per strand for strength and durability and an end to end tensile strength of 1 400 lb. 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.

Raw cable of 3 32 1 8 5 32 3 16 and 1 4 diameters is also available.