sabre Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I must be stupid....:red: Can someone explain me how these straps and buckles work.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Yorkie370 Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Looks to me like the lashings for securing the spare wheel on a LR Series 3 bonnet. If so, they should form a 'Y', with a hook on the end of the long leg which fits over a flattened hoop towards the front of the bonnet, while the ends of the shorter legs are secured by similar loops at the windscreen end of the bonnet. The mechanism is an 'over-centre' tensioner, with which to take up the slack. In practice, we would stuff hessian, exhaust extensions, and other sundry stuff under the strap as well, although leaving the security of a rather hefty wheel/tyre combo to a UV light-degraded bit of plastic was probably a little optimistic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 robin craig Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 They are a "cam over centre" style. With the handle open draw webbing snug and then close the handle aka cam and it tensions it. Do you need step by step photos or can you figure it out with my description? R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sabre Posted February 21, 2010 Author Share Posted February 21, 2010 step by step would be a great help....:red: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 robin craig Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 will be a few days for that. R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 timbo Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 step by step would be a great help....:red: I think EMLRA website has a sticky on this very subject.... Try this http://forum.emlra.org/viewtopic.php?t=2033 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Stone Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I find they're easy when you 'just do it' and the second you think about what you're doing it gets ten times harder! :banghead: If they're the same as mine, the basic idea is just that you pull the majority of the strap through the slot, then crank the handle down to pull it taut. It's a simpler variant of normal ratchet straps - with those you wind the slack around the central roller and it'll keep rotating as you ratchet (and it gets tighter and tighter). These ones have a fixed amount of 'extra' tension you can apply so it's harder to bend your fittings by accident. Stone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Can someone explain me how these straps and buckles work....
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