> There is a cheap, ready made alterative at the hardware > > store. It is the old style screen door spring that is 12 to 14 inches > > long and very tightly wound. Larry Flesner +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>I tried that, straight out of Tony Bengelis' book, but the only springs I >could find were indeed "very tightly wound", and I couldn't begin to stretch >them out without the mechanical advantage of a screen door working for me. >Mark Langford +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++= I just put my left hand on one end and my right hand on the other end and pulled. Actually I think I stretched a small section at a time. Maybe you should have asked you son to do it for you. :-) Larry Flesner