Minor miracle #2

10 years ago, both lights on my garage door opener worked. ~appx 6 years ago, one of them stopped working (no matter how many times I changed the bulb!). As I still had one working light, I didn't really care. Then, ~3 years ago, the other one stobbed working. I have lights on a switch in the room, so the only loss is that the lights don't go on and off automatically with the door.

But still it bothered me and I resolved to do something about it. Sometime.

So, a month or so ago, on Saturday, I decided it was the day. To google it, at least. The only help I found made an offensively simple suggestion, which I only tried so that I could rule it out and move onto the next step. Someone suggested that the contact at the bottom of the socket was a springy piece of bent metal that had lost its spring over the years and all one had to do was bend it back out again and start the despringing process anew.

Well... it worked. On both lights. And it took about 25 seconds per light with perhaps another 10 seconds of ladder moving. So I procrastinated a 1 minute fix for about 6 years... but the key thing is that it's done now.

A minor miracle.