Re: Hood Prop

[Dave Chu <dave@ece.concordia.ca>]

In message <82C291F80EF7D311B2EE0090277A49F503964C@REXCH>you write:
>I have seen piston systems with a locking device on them.
>What about something like that ?
>

  That is what I have done on my car.  I made up a locking device to
  keep the bonnet up because the ones I used are not strong enought
  to hold the wieght of the bonnet.  I've seen similar device in the
  JC Whitney catalouge, which is where I got the idea for it.  
 
  One of the plate and the top mouting hole on the driver side
  was bent.  This happen because when I had my car in the body shop
  (I would never go back to these people again) the drone who
  worked on my car didn't notice the latch to relase the locking
  device and tried to force the bonnet down.


Dave                                                  |\ |     | |      
Dave Chu                                 \/  \/       | /|     | |  
Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng.                           |/ |     | |      
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