Why has someone not reprod this bar? Couldn't be too expensive?

Jeff

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> On Aug 19, 2015, at 7:35 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> 
> At 04:57 PM 8/14/2015, PB wrote:
>> Ok - so in order to repair or replace my pop top frame mechanism without
>> removing the poptop itself, I would need to support it. That's a simple
>> concept, but I would like to know EXACTLY how!  I'm envisioning a wooden
>> jig something like THIS ONE
>> <http://s74.photobucket.com/user/edtech2000/media/Pop%20Top%20Suppport.jpg.html>.
>> I was thinking that an auto jack might go below the base, but never used
>> one.
> 
> You're working too hard.  2x4 in the middle, padded or secured as appropriate.
> 
> FWIW, I discovered my cross-tube was almost sawn through three hours
> before I had to leave to catch a ferry to Nova Scotia.  I propped up
> one side at a time, cut the tube short, turned solid ends from
> bronze, glued them in with JB Weld, and was on the road in time.  But
> it's occurred to me since that I could have simply shoved in three
> inches of the largest-diameter piece of round bar I could find that
> fit inside the cross-tube and been fine for the trip and maybe forever.
> 
> https://picasaweb.google.com/117189706757545167023/VanagonPopTopHingeTroubles?noredirect=1
> 
> Yours,
> David