If the magnets were about 10 times more powerful, I think it would work.  But, with the slightest breeze, the thing snaps open and then sways in the wind.  It is useless for my application.   I might try my luck in cracking open the 18 plastic magnet housings and see if I can insert a better magnet inside.

I have a feeling that this is yet another example of how an otherwise good product is made useless by inferior Chinese components.  Just how much more would it cost to use better magnets?  In its current state it will just not work.

November 2011