On Aug 17, 2013, at 9:58 PM, Evan Martin <7martinn@GMAIL.COM> wrote: if you're lazy and cheap like me, carry a small vice-grip pliers and clamp at the base of the cylinder when fully extended. and then you've got an extra vice-grip pliers around when you need them, anyway. Or pop one end of one strut off, slide on a pre-measured/pre-cut length of the proper diameter PVC, so that when you lift the hatch, the PVC slides down and you just let the strut tube bottom rest on the top edge of the PVC, holding the hatch up. Mine will stay up doing that, with a Gary Lee ladder, with 2 Rotopax fuel tanks and a 30lb mt. bike on the hatch. bob.....whom also uses a mechanics hood strut clamp sometimes..... just for safety. ;-) looks like this: http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Support-Strut-Shock-Clamp/dp/B0031MKFTK |
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