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For those of us who have a wind out Omnistor canopy with the oval lock screw to lock the vertical leg.
Wound my canopy out for the first time on our Spanish trip a few days ago.
Dropped the legs and then tightened the oval lock screw.
The lock screw would not tighten and in fact the lock screw came out in my hand.
“Eh? What is going on?” I thought.
After consideration assumed the nuts holding the oval lock screw in place and permitting it to be tightened had shaken loose in transit.
Now the next question was how to take the legs apart to get access to the nuts that presumably were loose somewhere within the leg.
Removed legs from canopy and examined legs and located Torex screws fixing plastic leg components in place. Had no idea of size of Torex screwdriver required so visited local Chinese Superstore to purchase a set of Torex screwdrivers.
To advise a T15 Torex screwdriver is required to dismantle Thule Omnistor legs.
Removed plastic end cap stops, slide legs out of housing and lo and behold the nuts appeared.
Reattached nuts to oval lock screws and reassembled leg.
All now fine with Omnistor.
What I assume had happened is that when I last wound the canopy in I did not tighten and lock the feet lock screws. As a result the nuts were shaken loose off the lock screws whilst in transit.
So a warning to all with Omnistor canopies.
Tighten your lock screws else you will loose your nuts!
Just curious but has anybody else come across any other technical issues that required fixing with Omnistor canopies?
Wound my canopy out for the first time on our Spanish trip a few days ago.
Dropped the legs and then tightened the oval lock screw.
The lock screw would not tighten and in fact the lock screw came out in my hand.
“Eh? What is going on?” I thought.
After consideration assumed the nuts holding the oval lock screw in place and permitting it to be tightened had shaken loose in transit.
Now the next question was how to take the legs apart to get access to the nuts that presumably were loose somewhere within the leg.
Removed legs from canopy and examined legs and located Torex screws fixing plastic leg components in place. Had no idea of size of Torex screwdriver required so visited local Chinese Superstore to purchase a set of Torex screwdrivers.
To advise a T15 Torex screwdriver is required to dismantle Thule Omnistor legs.
Removed plastic end cap stops, slide legs out of housing and lo and behold the nuts appeared.
Reattached nuts to oval lock screws and reassembled leg.
All now fine with Omnistor.
What I assume had happened is that when I last wound the canopy in I did not tighten and lock the feet lock screws. As a result the nuts were shaken loose off the lock screws whilst in transit.
So a warning to all with Omnistor canopies.
Tighten your lock screws else you will loose your nuts!
Just curious but has anybody else come across any other technical issues that required fixing with Omnistor canopies?