Well, we took to opener back to the store last night, apparently a screw drive won’t work - the track is too tall for the opening. Very irritating. The joint who installed the opener said they can pu in the chain drives with as little as 1 1/2″, which is only a little less than i have. It’s annoying that the garage is built this way, but no one bothered to tell us that our choice of openers is limited by their design. bleah. Time for an irate call.
Anyhoo, we exchanged it for a chain drive, and it looks like i can make it work. It’ll still be a tight fit, but i don’t think i’ll have to do too much to make it work, maybe shave a rafter a little. Hopefully installing it tonight (got started last night, but got sidetracked).
