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Sunday, April 19, 2020 jimp Allentown, PA

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Look familiar? – well it’s a new one, just like the one that blew away – although several significant improvements and a few steps back – improved – the unrippable (and it is) covering is easily large enough to fit over the frame without stretching; the pipes are labeled and have square holes accepting square lock flat head screws with wing nuts. MUCH better directions. The zipper is disappointing – the blow away had an overly large plastic zipper – this one less robust. Thought I could do this in an hour, but the screw holes aren’t perfectly located so that as you get more pipes positioned and locked, tiny fractions of displacement of inserted pipe screw holes make it virtually impossible to get it to line up to pass the screw. One corner assembly took 15 aggravating minutes to get 1 screw to pass – required a hammer. Finally finished – 2 ½ hr.
This one is tied down zip tied to stakes at the corners and 2 more on each side, corner staked ropes, and for good measure a separately staked rope angled over the top.
 



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