Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 07:19:28 -0700
Reply-To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: hook and loop fasteners
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In Virginia summers the sticky-backed stuff comes unstuck from just about everything (puck lights, you name it), and the stickum can foul a sewing needle if you try to stitch it so hand-stitching might be the answer. You might also staple it, depending on the surface. There is also fabric glue, which will hold pieces of the velcro to a surface better than the stickum itself that comes on the back of the velcro.
You can add snaps to the existing number. Karen made our slider screen, using no-see-um netting with a much finer mesh than normal screen, and we have many snaps running along both the front and back of the slider opening, velcro patches where helpful, and snaps and velcro along the top edge (bottom of the curtain tray on that side). There are BBs in the bottom hem of the screen to weight it and hold it down against the floor. The screen halves themselves have a magnet closure in the center instead of zipper or velcro, permitting a no-handed pass through. Very nifty.
Stephen
--- On Fri, 7/6/12, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: hook and loop fasteners
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, July 6, 2012, 4:10 PM
I am considering renovating the insect screen for the slider door opening that I have for my 1991 Volkswagen Vanagon GL Campmobile. I ordered it from GoWesty 3 years ago. i installed it per instructions, and it sort of works. However, it was never perfect, and bugs, particularly large beetles, are able to get in around the edges, where it is fastened to the bulkhead with snaps. A couple of snaps have broken, too, and must be replaced. A few places just never fit tight against the bulkhead, even though properly stretched, measured exactly per instructions.
So, a while back someone on here suggested hook and loop tape. There appear to be two choices for installing the stuff: It comes as sticky backed tape, or as plain backed. Has anyone any experience with the sticky backed stuff in this or a similar application? The drape itself flexes of course, and I wonder how well the tape will stick over time. But the plain would have to be sewn to the drape, and the edge is a heavy vinyl material that would require a much heavier duty sewing machine that the one we have for sewing dress fabric and such.
If anyone has experience that would help me in deciding whether to spend $30-40 for hook and loop tape and then a lot of labor, please advise. I guess the sticky stuff would be the better choice. And on the bulkhead, I could additionally fasten it down with the snaps. I could even do that on the drape, if the snaps will fasten through both the tape and the drape edge.
Please advise, thanks. mcneely
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