Timberline III Top Plate

I am assembling a Doughboy Timberline III. The plate on the upright does not seem to hang over the pool wall. The pool wall just presses up against the top plate on the vertical uprights.

Is this correct?




Hi. Yes, that would be correct. While most top plates do go over top of the retaining rods Doughboy did have a model or two where they did not.

Most of the time when we built this model we would stretch the liner in over the metal rods as opposed to building the entire frame like we normally would. We found that the uprights liked to fall over when we took the top rails off, and that is not good.

We would install the wall and tape the metal rods over it to hold it up. We would then stretch the liner in over the rods. When we tucked the liner under we had an assembly line process going on. I would cloths pin the liner in place and then go back and install the coping. Someone would follow behind me and install the metal rods. The third person would be installing the uprights and the top rails.

I'm pretty sure this was the Timberline III, but not completely sure. I think the Sand Dollar also had top plates that did not hook over the wall, but they had enough screws at the bottom of the uprights to keep them from falling over.

It's been a while so I am not really sure, but yes, it is very possible the plates were not meant to hook over the wall.