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Subject:Re: Westy Screens, and Westy Screen Repair...
From:mike
Date:Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:15:29 -0700

I made screens for the front windows doing the glue gun route.

Mike

On 10/10/07 11:05 PM, "Kyle Davis" <davis_family_46168@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>      Been thinking of the repairs I am certainly
> qualified to do on the westy, and I came up with this.
>
>      I have 2 screen windows for my sliding passenger
> area windows.  Should there have been a third for the
> vent cap in the popup area?  Does anybody know?
>
>      Anyhow, a rudimentary visual inspection yields
> the fact that the screen seemed to have been attached
> to its plastic frame with some sort of adhesive
> material.
>
>      Only one screen is intact, the other screen,
> while not being intact, isn't in tatters, either.
> Rather; it looks like the adhesive has worn off on
> three of the four sides on the plastic frame.
>
>      There is a local hardware store in town that
> specializes in fixing screen windows (I don't really
> know if they've ever seen a westy one before or not,
> though.)
>
>      But, what does the list think of me firing up my
> hot glue gun and simply trying to re-attach the three
> dislocated sides to the frame?
>
> Kyle
>
>
>
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