well dave it is kinda rainy here so i glued everything back together. thought i would push the living room furniture out of the way and spool it up(only)...just to see if the repairs would hold, next thing i know i am hovering about 10 inches off the floor in a 5 foot box for darn near 2 min. i am so damn excited it was all i could do to keep the grin off my face. that is the best hover since i bought the thing. ha and my wife did not have to make a smoothy for me either[8D]