Equipt FAQ: Eezi-Awn Bat/Manta/Swift Leg Operation

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Hi, Paul with Equipt again. Another one of the things that we find on the bad awning that people get frustrated with, rightly so, is how the legs for the rafter arms get retained up inside the rafter arm itself. It has to do with the little black plastic clip that's right up here in here and how that actually works. Once you get it, it makes sense. If you don't see how it all goes together, it can be very frustrating, and boy, it's been frustrating for me. So let me show you how this works, and then I'm going to show you in detail with some parts on how those pieces don't go together, and hopefully, that'll make sense.

So what we have is a plastic clip in there with a little button that you can push on with your finger that helps disengage the arm or the leg from the arm. First thing I do is I loosen the knob here, I push the button here, and the leg falls out. I extend that leg down, bring it down, set it on the ground, and then I can adjust it to whatever height is necessary for use, right? Plain and simple. Okay, so let's go around the other direction, let's put it away.

So what I do, I take that arm up in there, I shorten it down kind of ways the foot needs to be at the bottom. You turn that so it's horizontal, perfect or parallel with the leg, slide it down in there until you see that clip. There's a little itty-bitty ledge in there on that clip, and I'll show you that in detail in just a second. I put it onto that ledge, I slide the arm towards the hinges just a little bit to hold it in place, then I tighten this knob in place. That's it, and it's in there. It's not going to go anywhere until I loosen the knob and I push that button and it falls back out.

Okay, so we'll put it back up in there, find the little ledge, slide it into place, and tighten. Now let's look at a little bit closer detail. Okay, so what I have here is the clip and a leg so that we can show you in a little bit more detail what's going on there. That's a full bat leg there. Now, this clip's interesting. This clip is what goes up inside that arm. It's riveted in place here and here, and it sits like this. Now, if you look at that darn thing, here's that tab that you push on gives it a little bit of spring to it, and there is that notch that we're talking about, that little notch right there.

Now, what that notch is designed to do is to fit right inside this recess in the bottom of the leg. So when you take this guy, you lift that leg up in there, you notice it goes right up there and fits right nice and tight in that space. Okay, that is what it's trying to do. So every time that you lift this leg up into place, you need to lift it up in there, find that notch, and then slide the leg itself back towards the clip and then tighten the nut that's down there, the knob that's way down there at that end right down there. You tighten that in place, and then this clip holds that thing just fine, not a problem.

But if you don't know what's going on in there, it makes it very difficult to feel or figure out. Once you try it a few times, it's going to make a lot more sense. So I hope that makes more sense to you. The reason why they went to this guy, my understanding is that it really does stabilize that leg more than the little ledge did before, and it really does away with a lot of the rattling and noise going down the road while the awning is stowed in transit. If you have any questions, we're more than happy to help, just let us know. Thanks for watching.