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.
>
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