Video Transcript for An In-Depth Look at the Taylor Made Marine Gas Strut for Boat Hatches-3691876-80

Ellen: Hey, everyone. I'm Ellen here at etrailer.com, and we're going to be taking a look at the replacement gas strut. This is an 80-pound capacity, 15-inch strut to replace a broken or damaged one or one that's just worn out and not working effectively, either on your boat, for your motor home or RV, or really any other application that you might need this guy. Basically, it's just going to lift that door or compartment to allow you to load in your equipment, take things out, and not have it whack you in the back of the head or smash your hand or anything like that. So, very important.Take a little closer look at it. It is going to have the socket attachment points.

These are going to be 10-millimeter ball socket attachments. There is a little bit of an adjustment here on the one end. You can thread this out, so if it's not quite 15 inches, you do have a little bit of wiggle room also to adjust the angle between those two ends so you can get it dialed in where you need it to go. This 15 inches is measured from those two attachment points. Let's grab my handy-dandy tape measure and take a look at that.

So you can see from about center to center, that's going to give us 15 inches. This is also when it's expanded all the way, so it'll compress smaller than this, but whenever you take your measurement, you want to do it from your door to the frame when it's open. So that's where you're going to get your measurement from.Again, the compression force for this is 80 pounds. The construction of this is going to be a heat-treated steel with a corrosion resistant coating. So you don't have to worry about this rusting, even in saltwater applications.

It's going to be great for marine use, but also everyday use. RVs and other vehicles encounter a lot of salt as well on the roads, so it's a good idea to have something that is corrosion resistant, because rust is not our friend. Most of the time.Anyway, this is going to be about all there is to it for this. Should be a pretty straightforward install. I hope this video's been helpful in deciding if this is the right one for you.

If not, we do have other struts available in different lengths and also in different compression ratings. So check those out here at etrailer.com. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.