I had my mast hanging on hooks on my fence in the backyard. A while back I removed the lower tangs that were not the correct size so I stuck a wood dowel through the holes to keep the compression tube in place. Well today I moved the mast to some saw horses so I can paint, rewire etc. and the darn dowel fell out and now the compression tube is somewhere in the middle of a 40 foot long mast. I can probably retrieve it somehow but I'm looking for ideas to get the dang thing back in place. Anyone else have to deal with this?