Date:         Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:34:59 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: sliding door screen
Comments: To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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---- Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Tell me more about the sliding door screen. What year is your van? Does
> anybody know what the difference is for the arrangement of the early (as in
> through 83) and later sliding door is? I have access to both style interiors
> to look at, if need be, but I have no idea how the screen attaches. It is an
> 83 I am wanting to put the screen in.

I have a sliding door screen in my 1991 VW Vanagon GL Campmobile.  I installed it following directions from the vendor (GoWesty).  The screen itself is of excellent quality.  However, I am very dissatisfied with my installation, and frankly, I can see no way that it could be installed so as to fit tightly and function to keep out insects, with all the things it has to fit over and around.  It is particularly problematic at night if I have a light in the cabin.  that attracts the critters.  In these parts, the brown scarabs called locally "June bugs" are particularly bothersome, and of course some mosquitoes certainly find their way in.  It does seem to exclude houseflies, which are numerous at some public campgrounds, and admits fewer mosquitoes than no screen at all.

If anyone knows how to fit it tightly to the frame, and could advise me, I might try to redo it, though of course I would have extra snaps in place.

David McNeely