Replacement awning from RVawningsmart.com?
Hello everyone, My 13-year-old trailer needs replacement fabric for its awning. After researching sources, it looks like an outfit that's called RVawningsmart.com, that also trades on eBay as top-s...
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I just replaced our 14' awning fabric with a replacement from RVawningsmart.com. The fabric came fairly quickly and was folded up in a box along with instructions for mounting it onto the awning tube and molding on the trailer.
I suggest you watch the youtube videos to get a better visual idea of what you need to do.
A longer awning really doesn't change the procedure much. I put a long board (10') on a couple of sawhorses so I could work at a comfortable height. As long as more than half of the length sits on the board its long enough, with the ends overhanging.
The instructions show the material being folded, pushed into the slot in the tube and then the spline being pushed into the slot.
I found that having a piece of plastic (with dull or rounded edges)slightly thinner than the slot width let me push the material down into the slot as I went along.
The spline got VERY hard to push once it went about 2/3 of the awning length. If I was doing it again I would definitely use some sort of lubricant in the slot (that didn't attack the fabric material).
Steve
I suggest you watch the youtube videos to get a better visual idea of what you need to do.
A longer awning really doesn't change the procedure much. I put a long board (10') on a couple of sawhorses so I could work at a comfortable height. As long as more than half of the length sits on the board its long enough, with the ends overhanging.
The instructions show the material being folded, pushed into the slot in the tube and then the spline being pushed into the slot.
I found that having a piece of plastic (with dull or rounded edges)slightly thinner than the slot width let me push the material down into the slot as I went along.
The spline got VERY hard to push once it went about 2/3 of the awning length. If I was doing it again I would definitely use some sort of lubricant in the slot (that didn't attack the fabric material).
Steve
