Date:         Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:38:27 -0700
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: Pop top issue
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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I have pics too

http://shufti.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/west-pop-top-lifting-assembly-problem/

alistair


On 3-Jun-11, at 4:56 PM, David Beierl wrote:

> At 07:40 PM 6/3/2011, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> Neither your solution nor his are "everyman" fixes, requiring
>> special skills or tools. Neil said to check the Samba. I'll do so,
>> though finding the keyword to do the search might be tricky.
>
> Ain't no everyman fix as such, it's a high-loading joint with a big
> spring pulling on it.  You need to fixture it while you repair the
> tube, or else remove the frame entirely.  The fixes on the Samba
> involve welding.  You have to be fairly handy.
>
> But your gas struts should take some of the load off, and if you can
> sneak in behind and get some spray grease into the critical area that
> will drag things out considerable I would think.  Pretty sure you
> have to come from the canvas side, get the grease outside the
> cross-tube, but maybe you can get in between the flanges.  Neil has a
> better head picture of the joint than I do right now, so over to him.
>
> Yrs,
> d