Hayneedle Patio Unbrella retaining clips

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Hayneedle Patio Unbrella - fix for umbrella The umbrella cloth falls off the frame and main shaft support when you put it down, so its a pain putting it up and walking around to each frame and putting it back on. I called Hayneedle and they offered me 40% cash back to just deal with it (their words). So i took the refund and about 20 minutes, and designed these clips that cost a couple cents a piece to hold the stuff together. The shaft clip is used only on one place on the umbrella, the frame clips go 1 per frame arm (7 total). The clips stay under the cloth so they are not beat by the sun all day. The shaft clip is designed to just add enough resistence to hold the cloth in place. Pretty simple stuff. The frame clips have a curve at the bottom to hold the extra rolled up fabric. There is a diamond hole in the side to allow the umbrella to get air and dry when it rains but also keep the clip someone flexible for installing. As always, i post the STL files but i also post the IPT files (from Autodesk Inventor) so that anyone can download and modify as they wish. I hope this post helps someone. UPDATE: Noted, my testing in the hot sun found that the clips for the frame were not so strong due to the hole in the side. So i posted a version (v2) of those files without the hole so they stay stronger