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Originally Posted by GB SISSON

Or perhaps a new meaning to the phrase "Pull a head from the crowd"....

The majority of that contraption came from a yard sale in one of the foothill towns this side of the Cascades. The old gal said she found it hidden under a bunch of junk after her husband passed. "Almost like he'd been hiding it from me". Duh.

But back to surf boards, roof racks, lumber and working outa the back of a truck, When I was adjusting the cross tubes to fit the woodie's gutter, one of the steel clamps that hook under the gutter fell off from the cast aluminum stantion and dropped to the ground. I found the threaded eye bolt and the cam tightener that connects it, but no steel tab with the gutter hook to be found anywhere. I surmised that it never was there, just the cam and eye bolt, and the eye was bent open enough that the tab probably slipped off years ago or in that garage. Because I'm nuts, I spent at the very least, four hours fabricating a new part that looked correct as there were 3 others to pattern from. The darker one is my pounded out rendering with some black sikaflex from a caulking tube as the rubber coating.
Two days later I found the original, which had bounced off a tire and wheel laying nearby, the eye and cam seperated from the square clip and ended up alongside the running board, but the missing piece went down the center hole of the wheel.....