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Date:         Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:01:55 -0700
Reply-To:     Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Hatch Strut Pain
Comments: To: dkatsuki@WORLD.STD.COM
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Theres an exact length, I forget what it is, but I noticed that schedule 80 pvc wouldn't fit over my hatch strut but rigid schedule 40 would fit, then I realized I have two different struts, both original, one heavy duty and thus thicker, and one lighter and thinner. And Voila, the schedule 80 pvc fits over the lighter strut. So now I have both sides covered.

>From: Dave Katsuki <dkatsuki@WORLD.STD.COM> >Reply-To: Dave Katsuki <dkatsuki@WORLD.STD.COM> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >Subject: Re: Hatch Strut Pain >Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:01:11 -0400 > >Remember the emergency weak strut fix: > >Take a piece of 1/2" PVC pipe the right length and cut a slot down one side >to fit over the strut rod when extended. >Keep it in the back near at hand and resolve each time you put it in to >order replacement struts from Ken or Ron. > >Dave >90 Westy (now I can do chin-ups on the open hatch with the new struts...) > > > >At 10:18 PM 6/27/01 -0400, Vicki Derrer wrote: >>"You >>haven't experienced pain until you have walked into the edge of the >>hatch that you didn't notice had dropped down six inches since you >>walked under it the last time!" >> >> April, 2001... The ER...My boyfriend was even reluctant to accompany >>me >>inside, for fear of being accused of battering. "How did this happen?" >>they >>asked. "I walked into the open back hatch of my VW camper," I replied >>earnestly. Eleven stitches for me and some raised eyebrows from the >>nurses. >> >>Vicki in NC (my bangs will hide the scar)

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