Garage Parking System – Methods 0 and 1
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Do you want to
park perfectly in your garage every time?
Of course you do!! Here are two
methods to accomplish that, named, appropriately enough, Method 0 and Method
1. (There is also Method 2 which is covered
in another video and web page.) Why a Method
0? Because it is so simple and
rudimentary it does not deserve any more than a zero!! Method 0 is:
simply hang a tennis ball so that when you are perfectly parked, the tennis
ball is contacting the windshield of the car right in front of your
face. Just drive in straight to the
tennis ball and stop. What could be
more simple? Problem is, the tennis
ball is hanging there all the time. Method 1 moves
the ball down and up as the door moves up and down. (Yeah, that’s right: door goes up, ball
comes down. Door goes down, ball goes
up!) Simply tie a line (I use
monofilament fishing line) to the top of the garage door, route it through a
screw eye attached to the ceiling above the windshield of your car. When the door goes up…well, you get it. Just one
problem: the top of the door moves 7 feet and you only want the ball to come
down around 4 feet or so. That leads
to an interesting problem. Watch the
video to find out what it is. Jumping ahead,
here is the solution to the problem where the door moves 7 feet and the ball
only moves 4 feet:
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Here’s the video: