Tinker71
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- Ray
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It looks like a big fat coil on the drawings. The drive is on the coil shaft. It requires something to push up and over. Now that I think about it there might be empty flights in the channels sitting in "empty cars", so the travel length is longer but the actual slats probably do equal ~ bed length. The cars still have to occupy space in the track which may account for what looks like windings.We've had this conversation before.
Why would that stop it? The seats don't lie back into the bed.
Why would that change the coiled length?
The cover does not block the back window when open or close, only while moving, so it doesn't change the length of the cover. It merely passes through the wall.
-Crissa
It looks like the coil would take too much volume if fully retracted. It looks like it currently stops right below the rear window.
I also thought I saw a structural analysis that said they needed steel across the bed wall to make it lighter and efficient.
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