Bottom nut on u-turn leg does not tighten hard like the pure damping side, but instead does up and then turns the u-turn nut and the legs start to shorten. Is this usual?

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Sorry, ignorance here, does tic mean, yes it’s cool.
My mate will not be headplanting.

might be a throwback to the old forum where you needed to reply in order to monitor what was posted. I think he has the problem rather than knows the answer.

Wind the u-turn down to the shortest setting then tighten it.

Wind the u-turn down to the shortest setting then tighten it.

Yep, that should work

Thanks, done that, wound down and tightened, any tighter would have cracked the plastic uturn knob.