I had to alter one of my Rivers Edge hang ons stands the day that I bought it. I was assembling the stand and got to hooking the cable supports up and noticed some thing was terribly wrong. THE CABLES WERE TOOOOOOOO LONG!! This was a brand new stand. So instead of waiting for the proper cables to arrive I did some precise measuring with top of the line calipers and figures and drilled 2 new holes exact size of the original maufactures. Now my cables were perfect and the stand mounts to trees perfectly level. After I was done I took the stand back to the Pro Shop I purchased it from and showed Dave what I had done to the stand make it work properly. He pulled another stand exactly same as the one I purchased that day adn we measured the cables. They were the same legnth, we thought he had a bad batch come through. We did some more examining and found that the original holes in my stand didnt match the ones on the new one, but the holes I drilled matched EXACT!!!! The stand must not have been placed correctly in the press during maufacturing. Anyway I filled the original wholes with JBWeld and voila!!!! Just like new.