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I swear I've done it up VERY tight - the design and material on mine are inherently flawed: plastic is too soft (i.e. flexible), clamping surface area on the V-shape is too small, tolerances are too slack. The Shakespeare version you do up "normal" tight and it doesn't budge!

Thanks for the pictures - yes quite different! Compared to mine yours looks to have more clamping surface area and tighter tolerances. Your aluminium looks are thin as mine, it doesn't bend for you? For me it would bend BUT maybe it's the spot I was fishing (the current can get pretty strong) and at a different venue I'd be fine.

[QUOTE="crablante, post: 393247, member: 3967"] I swear I've done it up VERY tight - the design and material on mine are inherently flawed: plastic is too soft (i.e. flexible), clamping surface area on the V-shape is too small, tolerances are too slack. The Shakespeare version you do up "normal" tight and it doesn't budge! Thanks for the pictures - yes quite different! Compared to mine yours looks to have more clamping surface area and tighter tolerances. Your aluminium looks are thin as mine, it doesn't bend for you? For me it would bend BUT maybe it's the spot I was fishing (the current can get pretty strong) and at a different venue I'd be fine. [/QUOTE]

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