Cooler lid mod question

[Area51BS]

Anyone install a small gas strut for cooler lid such as a Yeti to hold it open? Or a long tight wound spring like some boat hatches. Just tap spring to collapse it to close lid.

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[ScLeCo]

How would you attach them? I wouldn't want to screw anything into the cooler.
The Cordova Basecamp coolers have this feature built in. They are the only cooler I know of that does.

 

[Area51BS]

How would you attach them? I wouldn't want to screw anything into the cooler.
The Cordova Basecamp coolers have this feature built in. They are the only cooler I know of that does.

Maybe a bracket and small rivnut inserts to distribute load across the plastic.

 

[MNBigfoot]

How would you attach them? I wouldn't want to screw anything into the cooler.
The Cordova Basecamp coolers have this feature built in. They are the only cooler I know of that does.

Screw them in, just like the Yeti bottle opener or Yeti fastners?

 

[ScLeCo]

Screw them in, just like the Yeti bottle opener or Yeti fastners?

I'd mess it up and have a $300 paperweight.

 

[MNBigfoot]

I'd mess it up and have a $300 paperweight.

A friend set a hot crock pot in one, that did not end well.

 

[Hemisfear]

Cooler?
No thanks...fridge! lol

 

[C-Note]

Mods expensive cooler, not happy with result, craft beer not cold anymore, wants a free replacement, is denied, post angry rant on forum for cars, not coolers.

 

[MileHighCitizen]

Europeans cannot comprehend American laziness.

 

[Area51BS]

Europeans cannot comprehend American laziness.

A heavy ass cooler on unlevel ground/vehicle while in the back of a vehicle, it’s nice not having to deal with a lid that operates like the Bronco center console lid. I like to think of myself as a person that can improve almost anything. Or at least try.

 

[HBTFD]

Go to west marine and look at boat hatch cylinders. There is enough material to screw a cylinder into a yeti cooler lid and side without blowing thru.

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