Cycle count meeting temperature. A torsion spring is rated in open and close cycles, and as it nears the end of that count the steel has fatigued. Cold contracts the coils and stiffens the lubricant film, raising the load on exactly the mornings the door works hardest. The result is a cluster pattern every Hartford winter: the season does not cause the failure, it schedules it.
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