I took the easy way out....I had a spare, pristine after I scrubbed
off the smoke stains, unit I got from a burned out westy :)

alistair

PS I'm with David, no easy fix that I can see. Someday I will fix up
the original one, but I suspect my lathe will be working to make the fix

On 3-Jun-11, at 6:03 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

> 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