Awning question (last one hopefully)
Ok...awning off, new fabric on, end caps replaced...now, it is a 17’ Dometic awning, and the research I found said that the spring should be tensioned 10 turns (clockwise—spring is on the left side)....
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dougrainer wrote:Farmboy666 wrote:beemerphile1 wrote:dougrainer wrote:beemerphile1 wrote:
FWIW, I replaced the fabric on my 18' awning last year without removing the end caps or messing with the springs.
Can't be done. I don't know what you did or how you did it, but Dometic awnings require at least one end cap to come off. The nylon insert ropes fold inside the tube and the end caps fit OVER them. Now, if you DRILLED out the end caps to get the old fabric removed and install the new fabric, that is NOT how you do it. Doug
Absolutely correct, drilled and slotted the end cap and then added additional rivets on each side of the new slot.
So apparently it CAN be done!!!
There is the CORRECT WAY and the wrong way. As I mentioned, you can go around the CORRECT way and the Poster did, but he did it wrong. It actually takes LONGER to do it his way than doing it the correct way. Doug
Who is to say it's wrong, People figure out new ways to do things all the time. If it works it's just another way to do it, because it's not the way you do it doesn't make it wrong.
