Pull on curtains

[subheatadey]

Hi, I think originally buses may of come with pull-on-curtains hung on cable or string? Why i say that mine still has some little galv metal bits held on with self tappers still in place on each side of the posts, can anyone confirm this and better still images of how they should have looked.

Tar,
Adey

 

[subheatadey]

Someone must know, help i keep slipping down the ratings! :hang:

 

[dazza1975]

Hi, My side curtains are held on with ali strips fixed at either end with the curtain threaded over, the rear has ali strips top and bottom threaded through the curtains, side door is on silent gliss runners as is the cab doors and the front screen curtain is held on with prestuds!

Hope this helps! oh and mines a westy!

 

[ozziedog]

I`m not a big fan on curtains Ade, as most of them hang away from the body and make it so claustrophobic inside, and they tend to bunch up and get in the way as well, but that`s just my opinion. So I went for the reflective types with the cool little suckers on that fit into each window, they are absolutely brilliant at keeping the light out and great fun to put on as well, maybe they were the first time but they get to be a real nause after the second or third time of popping the suckers in and out of their little holes :roll: And when they keep coming unstuck :roll: and when you want to put them away :roll: and when they adopt the bent position :roll: So I thought about installing roller blinds behind the door cards etc so as to just roll them up and slot them in,, well that is now on the back burner :roll: Then there is those ones that encase the cab door windows and the screen, I likes them and they do one for the back tailgate as well, but I haven`t tried them yet but spossed to be good. I`m also looking at Delilahs with the magnetic blinds, and that sounds good to me as well :roll:

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,,,,, So many decisions :lol:

 

[rlepecha]

I`m not a big fan on curtains Ade, as most of them hang away from the body and make it so claustrophobic inside, and they tend to bunch up and get in the way as well, but that`s just my opinion. So I went for the reflective types with the cool little suckers on that fit into each window, they are absolutely brilliant at keeping the light out and great fun to put on as well, maybe they were the first time but they get to be a real nause after the second or third time of popping the suckers in and out of their little holes :roll: And when they keep coming unstuck :roll: and when you want to put them away :roll: and when they adopt the bent position :roll: So I thought about installing roller blinds behind the door cards etc so as to just roll them up and slot them in,, well that is now on the back burner :roll: Then there is those ones that encase the cab door windows and the screen, I likes them and they do one for the back tailgate as well, but I haven`t tried them yet but spossed to be good. I`m also looking at Delilahs with the magnetic blinds, and that sounds good to me as well :roll:

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,,,,, So many decisions :lol:

I'm having a friend make me some curtains/blinds with neodymium magnets around the outside. The plan is to have enough magnets to allow me to fold them over to stick to each other. That way I can have them like full blinds, 1/2 window covering and also completely removed.

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[ozziedog]

I'm having a friend make me some curtains/blinds with neodymium magnets around the outside. The plan is to have enough magnets to allow me to fold them over to stick to each other. That way I can have them like full blinds, 1/2 window covering and also completely removed.

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:shock: :shock: :shock: `NEODYMIUM' :shock: :shock: :shock:

Now to save me getting my old dictionary out, which is almost as old as me so that word probably wasn`t around then :roll:
Is that the ones like on a fridge door, is this something utter super fantastic and new that I haven`t heard of yet :? :? I likes new fangled stuff, and I like the idea of smaller magnetic strips so you can fold them over and maybe leave them in place but held up out the way, or even put one on top the other, like it like it like it

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Hit me with it then,,, the big word please :mrgreen:

 

[busdiver]

From wikipedia

"A neodymium magnet (also known as NdFeB, NIB or Neo magnet), the most widely used[1] type of rare-earth magnet, is a permanent magnet made from an alloy of neodymium, iron and boron to form the Nd2Fe14B tetragonal crystalline structure.[2] Developed in 1982 by General Motors and Sumitomo Special Metals, neodymium magnets are the strongest type of permanent magnet commercially available.[2][3] They have replaced other types of magnet in the many applications in modern products that require strong permanent magnets, such as motors in cordless tools, hard disk drives and magnetic fasteners." :roll:

 

[subheatadey]

What happened to good old fashion magnets shaped like a horse shoe! :anim_20:

 

[Irishpete]

We did the blinds with magnets thing and they're great....




when you remember to put them in the van! :shock: :shock: :shock:

 

[rlepecha]

What happened to good old fashion magnets shaped like a horse shoe! :anim_20:

Neodymium ones are really strong whist being fairly small. I didn't like the idea of the strips or the weaker other styles of magnets cos you need more of them.

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[funkyhippo]

I've got net curtain wire on the top & bottom. The ones at the top have the curtains threaded through & the ones along the bottom I tuck my curtains behind to stop them hanging forward. I did have the metal strips that came with the van but the curtains wouldn't slide. I kept the original silent gliss for the sliding door & put press studs on my cab curtains, with Velcro top & bottom so that they stayed shut in the middle of the screen. :msn4:

 

[Fau-Vey]

On my Westy, all the curtains, including the sliding door, are sold onto Ali strip. The sliding door arrangement seems to be a bit of an oddity but, as one end is riveted in place and doesn't seem to have been moved, I'm guessing its OG.

 

[gvee]

Sounds like what I have in my van. Brackets on the A and B posts for a curtain to sling round the front windscreen?
Drop me a message if you want me to take a quick photo of it at some point.

 

[RePhil]

I've got curtains on nice rails & silver screens & if they don't all start behaving themselves I'm converting it to a panel - with blanked out rear window. :msn4:

Phil