Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 10:42:20 -0400
Reply-To: Jonce Fancher <streetbugs@FRONTIER.COM>
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From: Jonce Fancher <streetbugs@FRONTIER.COM>
Subject: Re: hook and loop fasteners
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Do not sew on Sticky back velcro rubber based or acrylic. It will gum
the needle and break thread.
Sew on or Plain back for sewing and acrylic based for metal and plastic.
That is the answer, not a suggestion!
Jonce
>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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