Glad yer runnin man!
"Based on Gary's video, I rigged (hacked really) a plywood standoff-ish thingy for my flex hose"
Do you think there is anything in that video that is there because it hasn't been proven to work? That video may seem simple, but it is the combined knowledge of myself, Brady and a few others that have been in hundreds of shops and solved real problems hands on.
You can call someone or look up the social media gurus that think they know stuff, but in the long run it is actually better to know stuff than to look it up.
(spoken by the poster child for the anti-social media)