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<blockquote data-quote="Trikky2" data-source="post: 479510" data-attributes="member: 240"><p>This thread is a good reminder for all to check the condition of the bits that hold their pop top shut. The wind or air pressures on a pop top can be quite considerable simply because its a large surface area.</p><p></p><p>Reminds me of something that happened to me a few years back.</p><p></p><p>Dormobile roofs had a strap at each end that located on turn buckles inside the roof aperture. In addition they also sold rubber toggles for the outside of the roof as additional security.</p><p></p><p>I had got lazy and was using only the rubber outside toggles and not bothering with the interior straps anymore. Touring in Spain that summer in the seventies we were on a typical not very wide two lane main road, doing about 55. The weather was warm and the windows were open. When a really big truck came the other way, doing about 65, the sudden whoosh of wind pressure tore the toggles and the roof opened. I was lucky. Other than the toggles there was no other damage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trikky2, post: 479510, member: 240"] This thread is a good reminder for all to check the condition of the bits that hold their pop top shut. The wind or air pressures on a pop top can be quite considerable simply because its a large surface area. Reminds me of something that happened to me a few years back. Dormobile roofs had a strap at each end that located on turn buckles inside the roof aperture. In addition they also sold rubber toggles for the outside of the roof as additional security. I had got lazy and was using only the rubber outside toggles and not bothering with the interior straps anymore. Touring in Spain that summer in the seventies we were on a typical not very wide two lane main road, doing about 55. The weather was warm and the windows were open. When a really big truck came the other way, doing about 65, the sudden whoosh of wind pressure tore the toggles and the roof opened. I was lucky. Other than the toggles there was no other damage. [/QUOTE]
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