On Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 8:52:51 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Resurrecting this old thread, as the canopy strut on my LS7 just wen caput. Pretty sure it uses the same strut as the LS6. Richard (or other LS6 owners), could you let me know what replacement strut you found?
Thanks,
Jordan

I replaced my LS gas spring, but the source was the ex-LS dealer in Canada. If your local dealer can't help...

From the groups.io "LSgliders" forum:
https://groups.io/g/LSgliders/message/19

In case that link doesn't work, the key info was
Herst-Dat is german for "Herstellungsdatum" = date of manufacture. August 1987 in this case.... truly time to change.

When you Google for
"gasdruckfeder 850n 7256516"
(gasdruckfeder = gas strut) you have a few hits, e.g.
https://www.agrarexpress.de/gasfeder...ung-850n-360mm