Well, better late than never.
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Looking at the image, you will see two large washers at the right hand side of the image where the Eyebolt threaded shaft seats. Two far right washers are Lock-Tite'd toether with Red Lock-Tite, when they have cured for 24-hours, a SST nut is centered and attached with Red Lock-tite.
Now you have two large washers with a nut all held together with Lock-Tite. Two SST Washers were required to withstand that torque compression that I applied, your mileage may differ according to the SST Alloy and quality of your chosen washers...mine were cheap Home Depot varieties.
Your simply drop that into the tube, and using a 5-foot section of aluminum or PVC pipe, you push that assembly to where it seats (look closely at the image and you can see how the tubing necks down).
Simply hold this in place, and invert the Aluminum Pole with the tubing inside, as you place downward pressure on the exterior of the Aluminum Pole, the inner pipe will prevent the washers from moving about as you thread the rest of the Eyebolt shaft into place.
Once you get it torqued down, mark the exterior threads above the left most nut that caps the hole in the silver aluminum insert with a Black Permanent Pen marker.
I use Red Lock-Tite on the threads of the Eyebolt threaded shaft so that when torqued into place, the entire assemble will not come loose.
If you wish to maintain modularity , you can forgoe all Locktite except for the bottom two washers and nut. I did this at first, but finally I just used Lock-Tite to silence the inside-the-head-narrator (I have several to choose from), to quiet the nay-sayers.
It has worked well, and if you use some Dyneema Loops, one can be looped over the eyebolt and the "Aluminum Ridgeline", can be slipped through, with twisting of the Dyneema Loop to insure that there is no slippage.
It has worked will, and makes it very easy to set up.
For instance, if you choose the correct loop length, it becomes easy to slide the loop through all three eyebolts, with the two ends hanging down, the the Aluminum Pole for the "Ridgeline" can in inserted in both ends of the loop, somewhat insuring that no issues entail after that crazy dream about drawing Excaliber and rushing off to Slay the Dragons... when in actuallity it was simply the somewhat krazy Chow-Chow letting me know how much he values his space in the hammock...it was a one dog nite.
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