You can see how this just fits in there.
And there it is. Go get one.
One of the more interesting parts of working with the canopy stiffener kit is trying to figure out how to bend parts of it. The plans call for the areas inside the holes to be bent to increase how rigid the piece of metal is, but the holes are small enough that it's difficult to get anything in there.
Well, it's impossible to get the Avery edge-rolling tool in there, which is the sort of thing that you want to use. The plans, at this point, suggest cutting a slot in a piece of scrap wood, and then using the slot to grab the part of the metal that needs to be bent, and there you go. We had less than stellar results with this, to put it mildly: the results didn't look attractive at all, and then wood would snap after a bending it a few times. (Perhaps it's possible to get good results doing this, I have no idea. Maybe you need a stronger piece of wood. I'm not really sure.)
In any case, the best way to do this - which we determined by asking around other tipper builders - is to locate the edge forming tool from the folks up at Cleaveland Tool. I actually heard about this tool from Sam Buchanan, who talks about it on his website. I'll second his opinion: it's highly recommended, so go buy it if you don't have another edge forming tool. Or you can do what we did, which is run down the road and borrow it from Dave, though that really only works if you're in this area.
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You can see how this just fits in there. |
And there it is. Go get one. |
Moral of the story, if you really want to know: this is a lot easier when you have the right tool. I think we spent about 2 hours on all this, and the vast majority of that time was fighting with lousy tools. After we got the right tool for this, things went much better. Still, though, this isn't all that easy to do, even with the right tools, so expect to have to be patient.
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