i found a demo for a drawing application that works with my out-of-date Mac and drew up a couple of diagrams of the two strut dampers just for comparison... it took a while to learn the (cocked-up) interface, but i finally have some decent technical drawings of what i'm working with. they're not to scale so the visual proportions are all off, and i rounded to the nearest 1/2 mm. just an exercise, really.
