Tom, you enter the Midway on the hanger deck. It's several sets of ladders up to the bridge and another few down to the decks below. After you go up or down, it's back down or up. The reasons they are called ladders and not stairs is because they are a b*tch to negotiate. You better wait until you have a good set of knees.

I removed the original strut by first removing the screws and then good old brute force to pop off the strut. Actually a number 18 X-acto chisel blade was used. You may remember that the strut was bonded on with Gorilla glue. I did not use epoxy for just this scenario. You can see how far off the new strut is from the old one. The screw mounting holes were also off quite a bit. A second new strut was no better. A mixture of Z-poxy Finishing Resin and Sig micro balloons was used to make up the difference and I used one of the shafts to find the correct location of the strut for minimum resistance and hold it in position until the mixture cured. You can see that I made sure there was an epoxy puddle over the screw holes to act as a screw head since I could not use screws as before. This cured and the resistance on the shaft was still very low. Some primer and then paint and that’s where it is now.