You can make screens that fit IN the windows with the "make-your-own-screen" materials at the hardware store. That is, you buy channel material, corners, cut the channel, make the shape, then put screen into the grooves just like other household screens. You can cut/file an upper plastic corner for the curve in the window. The channel material I bought fits perfectly in the sliding window channels. You open the window, put the screen in the goove and then close the window to hold the screen in. I made a pair for my '81 non-Westy when we used to camp in it. I made them almost as big as the max window opening for max ventilation. [The Westy windows are designed to be secure in the first notch and the Westy screens work with this. Screens as I describe don't do that for either Westies or non-Westies.] Richard A Jones Boulder, Colorado |
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