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I recently noticed my bungees were starting to fray. Rubber ok but covering starting to go. My bungee truss is non standard/taller and I remembered that the 1280's were too tight and I had ordered a couple longer ones to try but forgot what I actually used? I checked my build log which mentioned the 1280's being too long but nothing else. This was Aug. or Sept. 2013. Today I contacted ACS to check old orders and they only found the 1280's which I found odd..... Looking at the catalog I figured they might have been 1192, 11104 or one other one which I forget. Well the darn things cost almost 60 bucks each and I recall trying and cutting off before and didn't want to go through that again. But I was almost resigned to doing so.

Then Bingo I thought about the forum, maybe I mentioned it. I started scrolling back and DARN I talk alot...... It took almost 15 min. but there it was on 13 Sept. 2013.
The 1280 was too tight. I ordered 1192 and a 11104. The 1192 worked and I returned extra 1280's a nd the 11104 and ordered more 1192's.

Saved my butt again. I'll write it down this time.

So I take time to not only thank all my friends again but to thank the forum itself (time to send more $)

Regards,

Jack
 

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