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Subject:Re: 50 50 slider in a Westy?
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:26:22 -0700

You can use the stock screen, I do with my 50/50 windows. You just can't close the window with screen in place. It hasn't been a real problem.

Alistair

> On Jul 15, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Mike South <msouth@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 85 Westy full camper.
> 
> I would like thoughts on replacing the driver's side 70/30 window (the
> sliding part broke) with a 50/50.  Someone sold me a bus window (y'all
> helped me figure out what it was, actually) as a Vanagon window, then
> stopped returning emails.
> 
> I happen to have found someone locally who could swap me straight
> across--he needs the bus window, and he has a 50/50 split vanagon window.
> 
> I understand that the stock screen won't work on it.  Anyone have or know
> of a fix for that?
> 
> Someone in a previous thread suggested eurocampers.com, but the only
> vanagon screen I see there is the replacement for the stock one:
> 
> http://www.eurocampers.com/search.asp?keyword=screen&sortby=0&page=3&catid=
> 
> Anyone had luck making their own, for example?
> 
> Any other thoughts on whether this is a good or bad idea?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> mike