main awning ridge pole repair

[Ralph L. Fullenwider]

Hello Hank, good to hear from you and thank you. When are you two coming
States side?

Safe travels,

Ralph and Charolette Fullenwider
"84FC35 "Ruff Diamond"
Duncan, Oklahoma

At 05:23 AM 7/21/2010 +0000, you wrote:
>Way to go Ralph..that was fun reading..................The OZZIES are like
>that too.........two homemade OZZIE "BIRDS" comming back from Tamworth
>county western week, one blew a piston etc....other "BIRD" parked behind
>it on side of road for a week and stayed with it until others returned
>with parts etc..they fixed motor on side of road and finished the trip
>home and saved a bundle........one ozzie "bird" did have a CAT
>3208...............that's as close as these homades came to a Wanderlodge......
>
>take care,
>Hank Hannigan in OZ
>90SP36..in CA
>
>--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Ralph L. Fullenwider"
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone:
> >
> > While down in Texas working on the gen set, not long ago, an over
> night, un
> > expected rain and an un lowered main awning corner for water run off,
> > caused the ridge pole to fold in the center.
> >
> > Bim and I finally got the awning rolled up and tied down for travel and I
> > would look into replacing the main awning ridge pole from Zip Dee.
> >
> > A call to Zip Dee one morning confirmed that a new 23 foot awning pole
> > would run around $175.00 and while that is not a bad price, the shipping
> > price floored me to the tune of $600.00 trucking charges. Whoh up, I was
> > tempted to drive up there for that price. LOL
> >
> > So I call a local small muffler shop and was told "sure, I will work with
> > you on that." So Charolette and I stripped the roller down and removed all
> > pop rivets and loaded the bent pole of 3 inch 18 ga galvanized steel into
> > the van, tied a red rag on the end of it and I was off to the muffler shop.
> >
> > The owner of the shop chose a 24 inch piece of 3 inch exhaust pipe after
> > cutting out the bend on mine. And swelled a tight slip fit bell on both
> > ends of the repair tube. Then being sure of the length measurement he
> > welded the patch tube to my original. I paid him $30.00 for the repair and
> > loaded up and was off to home base (about 1 1/2 miles or so.)
> >
> > The pole was decidedly much straighter of course but needed a little
> > tweaking. We re installed the tubing into the awning fabric and re
> attached
> > the hardware and set the spring tension. Charolette, walked the repaired
> > awning tube right up into travel position as easy as you please.
> >
> > Point being, those tubes can be repaired and they work after wards. I have
> > added before and after photos in the photo section under awning repair.
> >
> > Safe travels,
> >
> > Ralph and Charolette Fullenwider
> > "84FC35 "Ruff Diamond"
> > Duncan, Oklahoma
> >
>
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