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