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Freep's avatar
Freep
Explorer
Jun 22, 2018

Convert fastguns to wobble stoppers

It seems to me that with a few modifications to your camper you could make your fast guns dual use. You're not using the fastguns when you need the wobble stoppers. Is there any reason why you couldn't make mount points on your jacks and on the camper that were approximately the same distance apart as the length of your shorter fastguns?

Then when you want to take the camper off, you take the fastguns off, drop the camper and then put two back on.

Am I missing something here?
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  • Freep's avatar
    Freep
    Explorer
    Jun 23, 2018
    joerg68 wrote:
    Wouldn't the wobble stoppers have a fixed length once set?

    As far as I understand the mechanics, you could still push the fastguns in some way (make them
    shorter) even when they are locked/engaged. And as they are spring loaded, you can probably still pull them out a tiny little bit. Also the hooks at both ends are not suited to take any load except pulling.



    The only point of the three you make which couldn't easily be dealt with by the positioning of the anchors seems to be the spring loaded point. I didn't consider that the wobble stoppers might not be spring loaded too. I knew there had to be a reason someone hasn't done this yet.
  • joerg68's avatar
    joerg68
    Nomad III
    Jun 23, 2018
    Wouldn't the wobble stoppers have a fixed length once set?

    As far as I understand the mechanics, you could still push the fastguns in some way (make them
    shorter) even when they are locked/engaged. And as they are spring loaded, you can probably still pull them out a tiny little bit. Also the hooks at both ends are not suited to take any load except pulling.
  • Devocamper's avatar
    Devocamper
    Explorer
    Jun 23, 2018
    The wobble stoppers are much shorter so the fastguns may not close up enough to tighten up , you would need to buy or fabricate the mounting brackets on the jack end and the camper end but they are basically the same device.

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