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Old 11-30-2009
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The Flicka's "offset compression post" looks more like a convenient handhold that was stuck on after the real compression loads were dealt with by the cabintop arch that is so evident in the photo. Engineers with licenses that they could lose if they got it wrong probably figured out how big the arch needed to be and what it should be made of. A mast resting on a 6' I-beam sounds like a house of cards waiting to be knocked over.
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