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After being wacked for the umpteenth time by my canopy
dropping shut and bruising my head, shoulder, or arm with the slightest breeze,
I finally replaced the gas struts with those purchased from a local auto
parts store. Here in coastal California our temperatures don't get very high,
and on the cooler mornings, the struts wouldn't keep the canopy open. Once
temperatures got a little higher the struts had a little more oomph! I measured
the strut's force on a scale, and one was 26 lb and the other 32. I took them to
the store where they measured them and looked up 40 lb struts. They ordered them
out of LA and they were in the next morning. The ones I got were Turbo-Lift
#819-5579. They are about 3/4" longer, and hold the canopy a little further
open, but with lots more authority!
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