Build Your Own 4x4 Canopy Part VI - GAS STRUT Mechanics
Channel: Custom Craft & Adventure
Date: 2022-04-16

Build your own 4x4 canopy! 

Gas struts are crucial part of a canopy. 
There are many ways to install gas struts in a 4x4 canopy. This video is mainly about lifting a roof from a canopy.

Here I show you the mechanics of gas strut to suit your canopy application, and therefore impacting the selection of your gas struts.

There are many ways to install gas struts.

If you are looking for a guide to for door application, I am sorry this video is not for you. But I am still hoping to give you a few points from my explanation.

Not trying to be nerdy but I hope I was better in high school physics especially in the topic of mechanics.

Installing gas struts is all about Newton third law of mechanics. Forces cancel out and the object will move should there be any net force.

A hinge-strut lifting mechanism is easy because the hinge is always strong enough to counteract the force of gas struts.

A full lift-off of a camper / canopy roof is particularly difficult because you need all forces to cancel out. So the roof can remain stationary in air.

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