Every worry about your awning opening when driving

Old-Biscuit wrote:

LarryJM wrote:

Old-Biscuit wrote:
I take my awning rod and use it to lock the roller

Stick the bent end of rod into hole on end cap of roller (opposite end of locking pawl lever or motor drive)
Rod hanging straight down place it behind the awning arms and strap it in place using velcro straps, bungee cords, zip ties etc)

Roller won't move...awning material can not unfurl

This is an modification I got from 'robsouth' that use to post here

The idea is good, but I would doubt that only the standard approx 1" bend at the end of the awning rod and the small diameter of the awning rod inserted into the awning tube would really hold if the awning started trying to unfurl and bang around at highway speeds.

Larry

Been using it for 10 yrs.....so far so good.
End cap hole/slot is only slightly larger diameter then awning rod
Hooked end of rod has never slipped out of end cap which is aligned with 1/4" grove in roller tube
Straight section of rod is slipped behind awning arm and held in place via velcro straps

Simple, free and it WORKS.

Well that statement is sort of like "I've never had an accident in the last 10 years so it means that I don't need Insurance". Also, all I can say is that there was a fairly detailed discussion of this over 7 years ago in THIS THREAD where many options including using the awing wand were discussed. While your awning wand might not have come out "YET" your luck was not the same as that reported by chuckster11 at 12/29/11 at 03:33pm in that thread above so it can happen and I believe using the wand is a poor way to secure the tube. The method I have described here that I am using which is the same as I posted in that thread back in 2011 is IMO probably the strongest one you can install. If the tube tries and rotate that 5/16 bolt I used which extends out past the awning arm will only allow the tube to rotate until that bolt "HITS" the tube and jams up against it and that tube is not "EVER" going to rotate any further.

Do what you want, but if you're not right something like those pics posted by Bill and Kate Posted at 12/27/11 08:14pm in that thread might await you and these awnings are not cheap nor would I want to be redesigning my awning system along side the road (AND PROBABLY AT NIGHT IN THE RAIN :E) and patching those holes from ripped out support brackets.

Larry