I would appreciate if you two took this up in private messages. This thread I started I would like to continue to use to track the progression and don't want other forum members to have to read through this crap.
consider done, sorry the disturb.
The following user(s) said Thank You: Bonsai Bender
To update this thread I bent part of the top too hard and heard a snap. A couple weeks later the entire top died. Chalk this one up to a lesson learned.
