Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:55:08 -0700
Reply-To: Gerald Masar <azsun99@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From: Gerald Masar <azsun99@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Re: To Thread or Not To Thread ... [was: Westy cabinet lid prop?]
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Like the only stupid question is the one not asked, this one is not too silly :).
Since I am the one who started it, I thank everyone for their responses which were
100% behind the shock cord, with one alternate from Joel. For now I will continue to
use the prop sticks. I do lots of "stealth" camping, so my curtains are almost always
closed tightly. I have put the lids behind the cord, but in mine the cord is snugged
to the wall with a clip between the windows. The curtain behind the stove SHOULD be
threaded, if you keep them closed AND if you use the fridge and stove, and on my '90
Westy at least, there is a stud on the window sill behind the stove where I keep the
cord secured. Keeps the curtain away from the flames and allows unimpeded ventilation
through the grill at the back from the back of the fridge.
Thanks again all,
Jerry
P.S. The curtains are much more forgiving than those pleated blinds in the EVC which
my Black Lab would have demolished with his tail.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alistair Bell" <albell@UVIC.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: To Thread or Not To Thread ... [was: Westy cabinet lid prop?]
> > I need a discussion about this. I purchased my '87 Westy five
> > years ago and the shock cords were not threaded. It never even occurred
> > to me that they might be threaded. I _really_ don't like the fact that
> > the curtains don't stay behind those shock cords very well so I was
> > thinking I would thread them. Are there problems which occur if they
> > are threaded? Let me know before I hurt myself! Thanks!
>
> Yes there are dangers!!!
>
> I held back from mentioning this a few weeks ago when the thread first came
> up, I though someone else would mention it...but no....
>
>
> I, like most everyone when confront with this conundrum, thought that if
> there was a hem one should use it. So I threaded, and found out to my
> dismay, the now the curtain had a saggy, unkempt look. Not good, and the
> resultant "fold" may even be a hazard as it could offer a snug hiding place
> for goodness know what.
> The lower cord should have been located lower on the body.
>
>
> :)
>
> this must be one of the more silly threads to come up.
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