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  • Re: Fw: Rear hatch screen.
    Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
    Thu, 11 May 2000 20:45:31 +0200
    ...Screen doesn't mean screen here. > It means screen. Like as in netting, not glass. A European sort of > mistake. > > tim > > Per Lindgren wrote...
  • Anyone seen the Go Westy Sliding door screen
    Historical mailing list - Jeff Hammerstrom
    Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:28:44 -0800
    I'm looking into buying a screen for the sliding door on my '90 Westy Camper. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience...
  • Re: Skylight Screen
    Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
    Wed, 2 Jun 1999 07:33:05 -0400
    > My 84 Westy does not have the skylight screen that I have seen in others. > While I am sure that Anne and I could...
  • Re: Source for Slider Window Screen
    Historical mailing list - Daniel Stevens
    Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:22:32 -0400
    aside from looking more camperesque, I prefer the side screens on my Riveria model conversion. they are an aluminum framed screen that covers the...
  • Re: AFM screws
    Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
    Mon, 1 Oct 2001 20:23:08 -0400
    I used my dremel-like tool to cut slots in the screws and used a regular flat headed driver On Monday 01 October 2001...
  • Re: front westfalia sticker
    Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
    Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:59:42 -0600
    ...On the front one, the "e" and "s" straddle the screw. I took the screw out so the decal would lay flat and as...
  • Re: Skylight Bug Screen Installation Help Needed
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Mon, 27 May 2002 11:33:40 -0500
    Any screen manufacturer should be able to produce a very attractive screen in an extruded aluminum frame with replaceable screen. Stan Wilder On Mon...
  • Scrollin, scrollin, scrollin
    Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
    Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:10:39 -0600
    ...VPC will generate a virtual screen for you > to view at the screen resolution with scroll bars. You should have had > to do this...
  • Re: OT: Window Glass
    Historical mailing list - developtrust
    Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:50:48 -0800
    ...I had to live with the permanent scratches left by the scrubber for many years after. No one noticed those small scratches but I...
  • Re: Permatex Plastic weld to create new instrument cluster tabs ??
    Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
    Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:04:28 -0800
    ...What I did was grease the screw and then form the JBWeld over/around the screw with some extra 'weld' over the plastic edges...
  • Re: Bug screen for front windows idea
    Historical mailing list - jimkim
    Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:28:52 -0800
    The problem with storage does scrap an otherwise good idea. The best screens I've run across were more of a sack that slipped...
  • Re: AFM screws
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:37:19 -0400
    ...Seems that the screws have been glued >in. Has anyone else who has messed with the circuit board had a similar >problem and if...
  • Re: EV screen update
    Historical mailing list - Drew B. Farenwald
    Tue, 18 Mar 97 6:26:00 EST
    > Now, the possibility exists that they sent me the screen for the 97 instead > of the 95, although they did ask me which one...
  • Re: Westi window screens
    Historical mailing list - Tony Moore
    Wed, 3 Sep 1997 20:54:43 -0400
    Hi Dr., Mine look they are a plastic screen material simply cut to fit and glued in place. I just took my screens from...
  • Re: Sliding door handle screw
    Historical mailing list - vw_van_fan_Mark
    Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:08:34 -0800
    ...Mark Kk Al wrote: > Quick question. > Any chance this interior sliding door handle screw is reverse threaded on > an 87 Syncro? The screw head...
  • Re: Bug Screen (Joe)
    Historical mailing list
    Thu, 23 May 1996 12:36:01 -0400
    the screnn available, I would like to purchase from you. I am restoring my 78 Westy and the rear hatch bug screen is one...
  • Re: Rear Hatch Screen
    Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
    Fri, 7 Nov 2003 16:04:19 -0700
    My reference to the OEM Bus Depot screen was in reference to the sliding door opening screen. That comes with everything but you have...
  • Re: Westy Screens, and Westy Screen Repair...
    Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
    Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:02:59 -0700
    I have repaired the screens with epoxy. It helps to compress the screen slightly with string tied across side-to-side and top-to...
  • Vanagon stainless steel screws for the exterior
    Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
    Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:28:12 -0400
    HI, I just want top say a few things about my screws. First, I apologize for this funny Fickr subject line, but I don...
  • Re: Screens for sliding windows?
    Historical mailing list
    Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:58:42 -0500
    Ellen, I have seen ASI campers with screens on the outside. Not the best look but it gets the job done. I don't...
  • Re: Westy Screens, and Westy Screen Repair...
    Historical mailing list - neil N
    Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:11:16 -0700
    ...On 10/11/07, Richard A Jones <jones@colorado.edu> wrote: > > One alternative to using those screens is to make a screen with > > magnets...
  • Winni-EV Hatch Screens
    Historical mailing list
    Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:18:26 -0400
    I was delighted to find out that the Winni-EV's include a Rear Hatch screens that allows the area under the hatch to...
  • Re: Black oxide finish on stainless steel
    Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
    Tue, 22 May 2007 23:32:31 -0400
    > "OEM screws are plain steel and just painted black" Not long ago I bought new fasteners from a VW Dealer. The black plastic and...
  • Re: Headlight switch help
    Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
    Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:39:54 -0500
    In addition to the magnetic screwdriver, I've found it handy to use a piece of paper to insert the screws into as I...
  • Westfalia Pop-Top Screws
    Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
    Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:01:36 -0700
    ...For the front luggage which has four truss screws, I'm going to re-tap the brackets to accept the (11 mm) screws. You...
  • Re: Screens for sliding windows?
    Historical mailing list - Ellen
    Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:35:41 -0700
    ...There are four screws (two top and two bottom) where the screens would have been mounted originally. Previously I have camped in a 1982...
  • Fw: Window Screens for Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Roy Olynick
    Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:58:22 -0600
    My Westy's home-made window screens for the front doors only cost me a "couple o'bucks" and very little time to make...
  • Re: Anyone seen the Go Westy Sliding door screen
    Historical mailing list - Ron 'Coyote' Lussier
    Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:47:22 -0700
    The Bus Depot screen isn't available right now, as far as I know. The Eurocampers screen has lots of velcro, and I don...
  • Re: Screen on door of Westy
    Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
    Wed, 3 Aug 2005 22:51:20 -0600
    My screen arrived without any snaps in place. I put them on both the screen and van at the same "sitting" and last summer...
  • Re: Need a pop top hinge screw to send to a bolt manufacturer
    Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
    Sat, 5 Aug 2006 09:38:34 -0700
    ...Standard SS screw with oversize SS washer to cover the old rust stain from the original screw head. Or slight oversize thin rubber washer...
  • Re: sliding door screens
    Historical mailing list - Steve Lashley
    Tue, 11 May 1999 14:05:06 EDT
    In a message dated 5/11/99 11:37:15 AM, ncdragonfly@COMPUSERVE.COM wrote: <<I just bought a sliding door screen for our...
  • Re: replacing old pop-top screen
    Historical mailing list - Jack Agnew
    Mon, 28 Nov 1994 16:23:50 -0800 (PST)
    ...BTW, we also put the no-see-um screening in the side window screen frames (just glued in a piece over the existing screen...
  • Re: Screen for non-camper
    Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
    Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:47:12 -0700
    Peter, I made some screens for my 7-passenger GL converted with a homemade camper conversion.� They work great, and look quite nice, cost...
  • Re: Westy screens
    Historical mailing list - Mike
    Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:17:02 -0400
    Speaking of Westy sliding window screens........... I've noticed that the ''fingernails-on-blackboard'' screeching sound that most of us hear (when sliding the...
  • Wanted: your old busted or ripped westy sliding window screens
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:40:23 EDT
    if anyone out there has any busted or ripped Westfalia sliding window screens...im interested in them... (these are the OEM style plastic framed...
  • Re: Screens
    Historical mailing list - rpc
    Wed, 10 May 2006 07:12:15 -0700
    Joy, I saw that you mentioned window screens. This is not in regards to the sides but for the front windows that may be...
  • headlight adjuster screw (86-91 rect lights)
    Historical mailing list - Aaron Pearson
    Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:50:35 -0700
    the plastic bit on one of my headlight adjuster screws broke, so i had a wobbly headlight until a new screw arrived in the...
  • Re: Westfalia Screen Repair Help Needed
    Historical mailing list - Joe Clark
    Sun, 5 Feb 1995 16:50:29 -0500 (EST)
    The shade of Tom Brouillette, channeling through Rachel Martin, quoth thus: > Does anyone have helpful hints on repairing the canvas screen on a Westy...
  • Re: Rear hatch screen install w/ passenger AC
    Historical mailing list
    Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:24:37 -0400
    ...The screws will not hold well, and will pull out. Next step, larger screws, repeat. -- use a coarse threaded screw if your worried about...
  • Re: jammed driver seat, solved
    Historical mailing list - Mark C
    Sun, 2 Jul 2006 09:14:14 -0700
    I don't have swivel - - and what happened is the one screw in the rear completely fell out and locked the seat in its...
  • Re: Vanagon screens
    Historical mailing list - Steve Lashley
    Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:39:35 EDT
    ...These kits are identical to the screens Westfalia now offers for the EuroVan campers in Germany. http://www.eurocampers.com/Screens.html I will...
  • Re: Fastener terminology in ETKA
    Historical mailing list - John
    Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:11:49 GMT
    Todd, That is likely nothing more than a #8 x 3/4" tapping screw. If it has a sharp point it is a type...
  • Re: VW Van Screensaver MAC Testers needed
    Historical mailing list - Tolga Morawski
    Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:06:11 -0400
    ...VW Van Screensaver MAC Testers needed > >Entity Andrew Grebneff spoke thus: > >>> Entity Larry Chase spoke thus: >>> >>>> VW Van Screensaver MAC Testers needed >>> There isn...
  • Re: Rear hatch screen install w/ passenger AC
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:36:21 -0500
    ...The screws will not > hold well, and will pull out. Next step, larger screws, repeat. > > -- > > > > use a coarse threaded screw if your worried about...
  • Re: westy bug screens into vanagon?
    Historical mailing list - Rusty Johnson
    Mon, 1 May 2000 14:01:53 EDT
    Doug Demarest asks: >Will the side window and/or the rear hatch bug screens from a westy install >easily into a vanagon? Just thought...
  • Re: Oil Change Screwup - HELP!
    Historical mailing list - Justin Mayrand
    Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:34:30 -0400
    ...I have no oil screen. The screen cover is there, with a stiff > and brittle gasket (so I will replace that) but there is...
  • Re: afm mixture screw
    Historical mailing list - Blake Thornton
    Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:08:35 -0700
    ...So, take a look and see if screwing in or out will let in more air (lean) or less (rich). b On Sun, 13...
  • Re: Brittle screen in pop top tent
    Historical mailing list - Dave Baker
    Wed, 31 Jul 2002 06:27:13 -0500
    Alistair Bell has a web site where you'll find replacement procedures for the screen that were contributed by Tom Hanlon and yours truly...
  • Re: front westfalia sticker
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:19:10 EDT
    ...From what I've seen the > screw looks to be in between the "E" and "S" in "westfalia" with the center > horizontal bar of...
  • Sagging Visor/ louver screens
    Historical mailing list - Elkavitch, Michael and Diana
    Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:22:40 -0500
    ...Comments? A request for screens. Does anyone have two good condition 70's louver window screens? I have louvers in Siegfried and need some...
  • Re: How to sew screen in poptop canvas?
    Historical mailing list - Joy Hecht
    Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:45:14 -0500
    My whole screen comes out too - Matilda's an '89. Not sure if that is the helpful action of a PO, though. Joy :::-----Original...
  • Re: was:Plastic Ramps/Slider Screen
    Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
    Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:38:56 -0500
    ...I wouldn't want to screw in snap fasteners from the front, when a through-bolt/nut/washer is needed to keep the screws...
  • Re: Full-Size SLIDING DOOR SCREENS
    Historical mailing list - Steve Lashley
    Mon, 3 May 1999 21:30:36 EDT
    ...I have screens for both the Vanagon and EuroVan. The screens are black with black trim. The black color adds privacy. <A HREF="http...
  • Re: Front Screen on 89-91 Needed
    Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
    Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:19:15 -0400
    ...Front Screen on 89-91 Needed > >> > >> > >>> Hi all > >>> Over the past few years I've been making items for the VW Bus Line > >>> and...
  • Re: inside door panel materials?
    Historical mailing list - George Goff
    Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:56:29 EDT
    In a message dated 8/16/05 10:17:42 AM, bueses@EARTHLINK.NET writes: << Westy also used screws w/ little "countersunk" washers to...
  • ETKA Display Sizing
    Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
    Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:23:32 -0500
    ...Anyone have any ideas on how I can get the full ETKA screen to show up on my laptop screen? Thanks. Ric
  • Re: [T2] poptop screws
    Historical mailing list - puzerewski
    Sun, 19 Nov 2000 11:13:35 -0500
    > Take a screw to Home Depot and see what stainless steel screws they've got > that are close. This is a good place to...
  • Re: was:Plastic Ramps/Slider Screen
    Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
    Thu, 3 Jun 2010 08:57:45 -0600
    ...I've had this screen on for entire summers and put it on 4 years ago with no problems of the screws that hold...
  • Re: Replacing window screens?
    Historical mailing list
    Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:10:52 -0500
    ...They have normal screen material, held in with a rubber >> bead, just like screen doors have. You can replace the screen material >> with something...
  • Re: Westy window screen
    Historical mailing list
    Wed, 10 Jul 2002 02:39:31 EDT
    ...home depot sells screening and you just hot-glue it in there around the perimiter. looks just like new.. by the way, i have...