main awning ridge pole repair

[HANK]

Ralph:
Not sure when we r returning to USA. Australia is a nice place to visit. We
have a house in a small town East of Melbourne. Air is clean, water good,
politicians the same, many beautiful sites to tour. Only 22 million people here
and same size as USA. Still want to get an old BIRD over here. Maybe I can
convince John Benham in Texas to sell me his 80FC31. Keep in touch.
Regards,
Hank Hannigan & Naty in OZ
90SP36 in CA

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Ralph L. Fullenwider"
wrote:
>
> 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
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>