Yes,

That little bit of over-center force required to lock the support struts in
place can be tough using the central cross bar. I very rarely get both
struts to snap into place evenly, but I'm usually trying to be gentle. One
usually snaps in place before the other, but that may be a good way to
approach it with less upper body strength. Choose one strut after both are
almost there, use both hands on one to snap it in, and then snap in the
other.

The tension of the canvas also affects how easy it is too.

Cheers,

Dave

On 2/8/07, Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, what Joy couldn't do was that last little bit of locking
> the cross bar in place. She actually was able to raise the roof a
> fair amount of the way... In her case I think the addition of struts
> will allow her to raise the poptop AND lock it in place...if the
> weight is less.
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:
>
> > My plan, BTW, is - hopefully with Kim's technical assistance - to
> > put in
> > struts.  I actually tried lifting his poptop and even _with_ the
> > struts I
> > couldn't do it!  But I'm not going to have anything like the weight
> > on mine
> > that he has on his.
>