Skip wrote:
The awning has done a good job in harsh conditions from the Atlantic shores to North Pacfic at Alaska.
Skip: wow! That awning has indeed had it's share of harsh environment/time on your camper.
I had worried about ours because of the nearly exclusive camping we now do directly along the Atlantic shoreline (salt spray/mist continually finding its way into every crevice, including seemingly hidden fastener points). I'm constantly touching up our jacks from small stone chip rust (I also now wrap the top of the 4 jacks in saran-wrap and hold the plastic down with elastic bands when camping (but not when moving) within salt spray distance of the ocean(s). And because we don't ever lower our jacks (or, dismount the camper) I put a sealing coat of white lithium grease along the seam where the inner jack leg and outer leg meet, to keep salt mist from penetrating UP the inner jack leg.
Cheers!
