At 11:33 AM -0700 6/29/05, Trina Lindal wrote: >Stan said: >> You should be able to buy SHOCK CORD. > >Otmar siad: >> 2) it looks exactly like the cable housing used on bicycles >> for gear and older brake cables. > >Well, having seen what the inside of those curtain cord thingies look like >(after being stretched well beyond their intended stretchiness), it is a >flat metal coil encased in plastic. I hadn't thought of shock cord (which is >basically a small bungee, correct?) or gears/brake cables (which aren't all >that stretchy), but I'm sure they could work... The original ones are not that stretchy either. Having pulled apart bicycle cables, as well as had the ones on my `82 camper come apart, they seem to be exactly the same coiled flat wire inside. (except some of the newer ones that are larger and have teflon inside) >Any ideas how to replicate the "invisible" attachment for the loop that gets >attached the body? It basically just a screw with a eye at one end (a >miniature verion of what you'd hang a plant from on a deck post), and it >screws perfectly into the metal coil (inside the black plastic sheathing). These are usually available at hardware stores. They are just small screw eye loops. hth, -- -Otmar- 82/86 Stretch Vanagon Westfalia GTI. "Power of two" Soon to be TDI. http://www.evcl.com/vw 1 914 EV, 1 Insight Hybrid |
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