Nice pics. You wrote, "So what to do? A copper bushing as Neil did or a
bronze shaft as David did? Or both?

Will report back."

Anything to report?

On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 17:38 -0700, Alistair Bell wrote:

> 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