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Originally Posted by TDoggart
"WARNING:
When lifting/lowering Snap-Up Bracket, Avoid putting any part of your body in the path of the lifting handle and under the cam arm and spring bars. Components of this system are loaded with substantial force and could shift position or drop suddenly causing serious injury or death.
Never Raise or Lower Snap-Up Brackets without raising the trailer tongue jack to remove the load from the spring bars and cam arms. Failure to do so could cause serious injury."
That sounds like it was written by a lawyer and not an RV tech.
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Elastic energy is pretty extreme when it comes to tempered steel. I would reduce the flexure as much as possible before attaching/unattaching the steel bars.