Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 08:44:35 -0700
Reply-To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Re: Two questions about shady boy awnings
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Yeah, you prob could. Someone said the pool noodle fix didn’t work for them, but I thought I read once, maybe it was bruce Todd? That it worked.
Maybe it’s how I have the mounting brackets installed on my van, but the drips there don’t bother me as much as the gap between van and rear of awning, directly over the open sliding door.
Alistair
> On Oct 31, 2020, at 8:02 AM, Jim. Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So, tell me this--I ask never have actually seen a SB awning--if you were
> to take a large enough sheet of flexible poly sheet, could you cut it and
> pop rivet it into the aluminum carrier so that edge away from the carrier
> rode down in the gutter at the bottom, and if so would this prevent water
> from going between the carrier and the body of the car?
>
> Jim
>
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 9:49 AM Skip L <skiplaubach@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>>
>> Pete O's SB looked so cooI on their Westy, so I installed the SB on my '84
>> Westy a few years ago. Indeed, it does not provide a solution to the rain
>> drip on the van side, and water pools a bit on the outer corner areas, but
>> the compactness and ease of set-up outweighs the other disadvantages.
>> Plus, it only rains ...75% of the time that we're camping.
>>
>> My vote is SB.
>>
>> Skip
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 11:54 AM Mark Belanger <mbelanger@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Any concern about theft, Jack?
>>>
>>>
>>> -MB
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:08 AM Jack R <jack007@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Best feature I've added to my 84 Westy! I love my ARB.
>>>>
>>>> I paid $290 for my ARB 814101 last April 2019, on EBay, including
>>>> shipping! Sold by wundercarparts. But I think the COVID Camping
>> Demand
>>>> has driven up the prices, as the best price I'm seeing now is nearly
>> $100
>>>> more.
>>>> Here's a photo of it installed.
>>>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/pPyVGS8oX4TCWTrk8
>>>>
>>>> I used the Northwesty brackets, no drilling!!!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> https://www.north-westy.com/parts/north-westy-stainless-steel-bracket-set-for-arb-awning-80-91-vanagon-only/
>>>>
>>>> Our friends have the Fiamma, and frankly, it only takes me a minute
>>> longer
>>>> to deploy my ARB!
>>>>
>>>> Jack R.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
>> Behalf
>>>> Of Bruce Todd
>>>> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020 12:00 AM
>>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>>> Subject: Re: Two questions about shady boy awnings
>>>>
>>>> Have you compared the SB to the EZY awning sold by Bus Depot? I too am
>>>> looking for next year and don't want to spend the big Fiamma bucks
>> either
>>>> or put up a second tent.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 7:52 PM Jim. Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Considering adding an awning, looking at shady boy.
>>>>>
>>>>> Question 1: Does the SB awning allow rain to enter the sliding door
>>>>> opening—falling straight down past the gutter, for instance, not
>>> blowing
>>>>> in.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Question 2: Is there some alternative I should be considering besides
>>> the
>>>>> SB? I don’t want a Fiamma style because of the expense and the bulk.
>> I
>>>>> don’t want one that is a two person job that takes all evening
>> either.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ________________________________________________________________________
>>> Mark Belanger - mbelanger@gmail.com
>>>
>>
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