Date:         Sat, 8 Apr 2000 00:44:25 EDT
Reply-To:     Kapitan Ray Nemo <Volksiebus@NETSCAPE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Kapitan Ray Nemo <Volksiebus@NETSCAPE.NET>
Subject:      Curtain tracks
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Really needs some curtains in my vanagon.  Read this off type2.com's library.

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Westfalia Curtain Track Sliders 

by Fred Stoermer

The brand name is 'RECMAR', and I get it at Boater's World which is a discount
marine supply chain. 


RECMAR's name for this particular product line is 'SLIDE-RIGHT CURTAIN TRACK'.
You can buy
just the sliders in a bag, or a kit including track and mounting screws plus
the sliders and stop screws for
the ends of the track sections. The track is identical to the plastic track
above the front doors on my 1970
Westy Campmobile, and the sliders fit perfectly in those Westy tracks plus the
aluminum track above the
sliding side door. 


The sliders are individual plastic pieces with loops for sewing onto the
curtains. The original Westy
curtains had a length of fabric with the sliders already attached, and this
was then sewn to the top edge
of the curtains. I sewed the RECMAR sliders onto the curtains my wife made for
the Westy and it went
very quickly even with my clumsy efforts. 


I have an unopened track kit here now. It has 2 pieces of track, 36 inches
each, plus a bag of sliders and
all the hardware. The price at Boater's World was a whopping $6.99. Kits are
also available with 24",
48", and 60" track sections. The packaging even includes instructions for

making the curtains. 


I can't find an address for RECMAR on this package, but they market this stuff
for van conversions and
RVs as well so it should be available just about anywhere. 


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Does anyone no of a source for these?  I'd hate to pay 60 from Zproducts or
others if I can get them cheap at some boating store.

TIA



der Kapitan     IXOYE
Huntington, Westy Virginia
Recovering Sniveling Technophobe Lurker and Co-inventor of the Internet

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