How about opening the window in the canvas? Is that adversely affected by the shelf being there? Edward At 10:39 PM 1/28/2008, Michael Elliott wrote: >Good questions, although I'll thank you not to ask about my "junk" in a >public place. > >Yes, the shelf makes it a bit harder to hoist the lid. The crossbar is no >longer graspable, but it is shoveable. It took me a few times to figure >out how to hoist and drop the top but it works fine. > >What keeps the shelf from tipping over is where Tom's cleverness shows: >the crossarm has a couple bends in it, one at each end near where it >connects to the pivot hinge assemblies and the shelf, clamped to the main >horizontal middle section of the crossarm, rests on the bends. Lift your >poptop and see how the bendy parts provide horizontal support for the >shelf. I've had lots of stuff up there, like full boxes of groceries, and >unless the wood breaks or the u-bolt backing plates pull through the >shelf, it can't tip. > >-- >Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott >71 Type 2: the Wonderbus >84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") >74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano >KG6RCR |
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