On 18 Aug 2005 at 3:56, Dave Vickery <davevickery@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Has anyone come up with for good DIY functional and inexpensive awning.  I
> have been looking for a used awning in the Denver area and have given up and
> starting thinking of making my own.
>
> So with awnings on my brain, I saw a truck go by with what looked like an
> awning on the side.  Then I realized it was 3" grey plastic conduit.  That
> got me thinking could you make a permanent awning with that tube, a tarp or
> awning material, a pole to roll it up on and a couple of end caps to hold the
> roll in the center of the tube.   Has anyone come up with something like this,
> or something better?   I have been using a tarp, a couple bungies and a couple
> extendable tent poles but it isn't quite good enough.

An interesting idea... I bought some stainless eye hooks year ago with the idea of
replacing some of the mounting bolts with them, so the eye would make a good tie
point for a tarp. But I never got around to it, and we now have an Apollo awning on
our '82, so no need.

Which reminds me, a co-worker just bought an '84, which has a PVC pipe mounted
across the rear tow hooks for storing something. I need to ask them what it's for,
possibly those telescoping tarp poles.

Shawn Wright
http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright
'85 Jetta D
'88 Westy 2.1L, soon to be 1.6TD 5 speed
 (see progress at http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels)
'82 Diesel Westy