Garage door noise reduction roller assembly

A hinge used in conjunction with and affixed to two adjacent garage door panels, the hinge including a roller wheel which is placed into a track of a garage door opening so that a garage door can be rolled up and down with a pair of oppositely disposed roller wheels respectively set within oppositely disposed tracks adjacent opposite ends of the garage door, the roller wheel including a metal collar with a metal roller shaft retained into the roller wheel, the metal roller shaft inserted into aligned openings in metal hinge brackets with a respective pair of metal hinge brackets incorporated into a respective metal hinge plate including openings to receive affixing members by which the each respective metal hinge plate is affixed to a garage door, the hinge comprising:

• a. the metal roller shaft including a tube retaining member;
• b. a plastic tube having a cylindrical outer wall and a cylindrical inner chamber surrounded by the cylindrical outer wall and open at a first end and at a second end, the plastic tube fitted over the metal roller shaft through the first opening and the second opening and retained on the metal roller shaft by the tube retaining member;
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• c. the plastic tube covered metal roller shaft inserted through the respective aligned openings in the hinge brackets so that the plastic tube prevents metal to metal contact between the metal roller shaft and the metal hinge brackets and metal hinge plates.