Date:         Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:02:59 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Westy Screens, and Westy Screen Repair...
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I have repaired the screens  with epoxy. It helps
to compress the screen slightly with string tied
across side-to-side and top-to-bottom.

Let cure overnight and then release the strings,
and the screen will settle back to normal form
and make the screen taut.

Robert

1982 Westfalia











--- Kyle Davis <davis_family_46168@YAHOO.COM>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>      Been thinking of the repairs I am
> certainly
> qualified to do on the westy, and I came up
> with this.
>
>      I have 2 screen windows for my sliding
> passenger
> area windows.  Should there have been a third
> for the
> vent cap in the popup area?  Does anybody know?
>
>      Anyhow, a rudimentary visual inspection
> yields
> the fact that the screen seemed to have been
> attached
> to its plastic frame with some sort of adhesive
> material.
>
>      Only one screen is intact, the other
> screen,
> while not being intact, isn't in tatters,
> either.
> Rather; it looks like the adhesive has worn off
> on
> three of the four sides on the plastic frame.
>
>      There is a local hardware store in town
> that
> specializes in fixing screen windows (I don't
> really
> know if they've ever seen a westy one before or
> not,
> though.)
>
>      But, what does the list think of me firing
> up my
> hot glue gun and simply trying to re-attach the
> three
> dislocated sides to the frame?
>
> Kyle
>
>
>
>
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