Does any body know where the best place to get steel clothes lines fromfir between the awning.
patrol03 said
11:23 AM Dec 30, 2017
Light gauge braided steel rope can be purchased at Some Bunnings outlets and also available at a marine chandlery
moamajohn said
11:24 AM Dec 30, 2017
Got ours from a Caravan accessory shop. John
Possum3 said
11:56 AM Dec 30, 2017
As you will only require a smallish amount go stainless steel (Strand not wire rope). It is very popular at the moment due to fencing balconies with minimum obfuscation of the view. Available at the big green shed reasonably priced or at boat chandlery at much higher price.
The reason for using strand rather than rope is that wire rope will stretch and sag, whereas strand will remain taught
Sparkster said
05:00 PM Dec 30, 2017
Check "Caravan Clotheslines" on ebay.
I found by the time I bought all the fittings required from Bunnings to make up the clothes line and probably the tool to crimp the fittings on neatly and securely I was better off buying it on ebay.
I've been using it now for about five years or more on two different vans with no problems.
Keith.
JohnR said
10:45 PM Dec 30, 2017
"Specialty Fastners" or similar outlets that deal in stainless steel and more so catering for "boaties".
We have stainless steel clothes line the full length of the awning and stainless steel eye slots to tie down the awning.
A little expensive but worth the effort.
JR.
RustyD said
12:02 PM Dec 31, 2017
We use rope with a turn-buckle to take up any slack. The rope is a continuous bit threaded through two small bits of poly pipe that loop over the awning arm.
While I was waiting out Cyclone Debbie in Emerald I was camped near a bloke who decided to make a s/steel clothes line for his awning.
He walked over the road to Bunnings or might have been Mitre 10 (cant remember) and bought all the bits there including a turnbuckle and two D shackles to mount it all up.
I made one by splicing some rope to those canvass flaps with the eylets and the rolled bit that slides into sail track. I just slide each end into the grooves on the anti flap rafters.
-- Edited by Dickodownunder on Sunday 31st of December 2017 12:23:45 PM
Gwian said
10:15 AM Jan 1, 2018
We bought ours at RV Towing Solutions. Check out their website. Posted to you and easy to fit.
The reason for using strand rather than rope is that wire rope will stretch and sag, whereas strand will remain taught
Check "Caravan Clotheslines" on ebay.
I found by the time I bought all the fittings required from Bunnings to make up the clothes line and probably the tool to crimp the fittings on neatly and securely I was better off buying it on ebay.
I've been using it now for about five years or more on two different vans with no problems.
Keith.
"Specialty Fastners" or similar outlets that deal in stainless steel and more so catering for "boaties".
We have stainless steel clothes line the full length of the awning and stainless steel eye slots to tie down the awning.
A little expensive but worth the effort.
JR.
While I was waiting out Cyclone Debbie in Emerald I was camped near a bloke who decided to make a s/steel clothes line for his awning.
He walked over the road to Bunnings or might have been Mitre 10 (cant remember) and bought all the bits there including a turnbuckle and two D shackles to mount it all up.
I made one by splicing some rope to those canvass flaps with the eylets and the rolled bit that slides into sail track.
I just slide each end into the grooves on the anti flap rafters.
-- Edited by Dickodownunder on Sunday 31st of December 2017 12:23:45 PM