: Thanks Rehd. Yeah, I know I could make this one work if I reworked
: that dowel... when I look at the union of those two parts I can see it was
: bound to fail. I'm puttng the project down because I found out what I
: wanted to know; now, when the time comes, I can put one together knowing
: the gotchas in advance... probably this Spring.

: Until then I got two little projects named Jake and Charlie that have
: priority, plus the double kayak that needs to be finished! I put the
: building sequence for the pump on the Paddles/Kayak Accessories page of my
: site.

That sounds like a really good plan as well.
Good luck on all three projects there.

Rehd