Short answer -Yes, I use dowel from bunnings.
Long answer -I noticed the sticks moved around every now and then, slippage is perhaps the word. It was just enough that the stick ends became visible every now and then and I would just poke them back in the tunnel... I must have done it 10 or 20 times. An absolute pain.
Anyway one day I simply re-rolled the sides a bit tighter thinking it would fix the problem. But it still didn't prevent the gosh darn heck slippage!
The warranty period of the Perentie having expired some decades ago, and the ROPS books simply teasing me, I decided against writing a ranting letter to JRA Engineering and Slippage Mitigation Section and decided to undertake a redesigning hack despite my lack of an engineering degree due to an extended gap year.
Sometime weeks after Corowa I removed the gosh darn sticks and wrapped a bit of bubble wrap (width of a coke can) in the centre of the sticks -with race tape over the top of the bubble wrap. When I re-rolled the sides... no more movement. Fixed really professionally.
Thats it, thats my expert-level-guru-tip for 2015 is done now.
Aren't you glad you asked LOL.
