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Subject:Re: A Westy awning
From:Dennis Jowell
Date:Sun, 15 Nov 2015 09:16:30 -0500

Questions on installing a Fiamma awning on the Westy. I noticed that there is at least 2 different ways of installing the Fiamma. GOWESTY brackets are drilled and screwed to the vehicle while VanCafe is bolted to the vehicle. Does anyone have experience which bracket is better? Is the difference more stability than the other? I have a lot of rough roads out here and didn't want the awning to fly off when driving, etc.
Laters,
Dennis

Dennis Jowell
Scotch Hollow Farm
Newbury, Vermont 

> On Nov 14, 2015, at 3:18 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/14/2015 11:30 AM, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>> It was a clear, sunny day at a coastal campground, well away from the beach,
>> where It's always breezy. With no warning a sudden gust came directly at it.
>> Lifted it up at a 45 degree angle, and then it was basically a bow with an
>> arrow in it.  I tied it down every time I used it after that.
> 
> Oh dear. Well I always stake down the two outer corners.
> 
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.

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