Repaired bed hinge dilemma
The long piano hinge on the queen sized bed bit the dust. I replaced the old hinge with no trouble. When I hooked up the lift support strut that holds the bed up to get into the storage underneath, I ...
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draboo wrote:Captain_Happy wrote:
Are you sure this strut don't lock when fully extended?
If they do, I have no idea how to unlock them. I tried again today pushing down on them on the concrete. No go.
In the military a long time ago I dealt with some struts that were designed to lock at "full extension". When locked out the rod came out of the tube at a slight angle. The angle was barely noticeable you had to look at it from the side when the strut was installed. You had to extend the rod a bit (about 1/4 inch) and push against the tube to straighten the angle then they would collapse.
If you can see this angle I would reattach to the bed to get the leverage to extend and straighten.
Mike
