Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:04:17 +0000
Reply-To: Dave Vickery <davevickery@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Dave Vickery <davevickery@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Installing a sliding door screen
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I used a piece of very light weight mosquito netting that I carried in my
back pack. I would shut the front passenger door on it, and wrap the other
end around the sliding door roller at the other end when the door was open.
The net was longer than the door opening so that it layed on on floor of the
van. There were a couple cracks at the door edge and top but it seemed to
kept the bugs out. It didn't need a zipper because you just lift it up and
go under.
I was looking at the zippered ones and thought that might be a hassle, plus
zero bugs follow me under the netting because I just lift it up and left it
fall off my back down on the van's floor as I enter. Whereas it seems the
zippered ones create a big opening for the mosquitoes to dart through.
Dave in Denver
>From: BJ Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
>Reply-To: BJ Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Installing a sliding door screen
>Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:07:26 -0400
>
>Thanks for the info. I just got started today when I noticed the zipper
>really does not work. Does yours work well? Does it get stuck allot?
>
>Thanks,
>Bryan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Burdett, Jean-Pierre [mailto:jp.burdett@spotwave.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:02 PM
>To: BJ Feddish; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: RE: Installing a sliding door screen
>
>I did the same on my 82.
>
>As long as you put in enough snaps around the entire thing it works fine
>and holds tight. Its hard to get the exact spacing right ( I have 1
>tight snap I must move slightly) I had to buy 2 extra packs of the
>snaps at the hardware store but that is likely user error.
>
>A couple things that helped me
>-----------------------------------
>Duct tape the screen up tight for sizing / alignment then drill the
>holes thru the screen vinyl and metal at the same time.
>
>I gave it a about a 1/4" overlap on the floor so it holds the base by
>friction to the carpet.
>
>Don't push the drill in too hard, you'll kill the bit, let it eat thru
>the metal
>
>Good luck!
>
>
>JP Burdett | Product Marketing Manager
>Spotwave Wireless Inc.
>
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
>Of BJ Feddish
>Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:57 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Installing a sliding door screen
>
>I just got one of those sliding door screens from BD. It says it fits an
>'85+ but will fit an older van with "some modifications". Has anybody
>with an '80 to '84 installed one of these? If you could snap a picture
>or two for me as to where you put the snaps and what you had to modify
>that would be great.
>
>If I don't get an answer back I'm going to have to film another movie,
>this time it will be "How Not to Install a Door Screen". ;)
>
>Bryan
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