![]() ![]() When he retired from the Army in 1996, Mark went to work for an RV dealership in sales and service. The Army agreed, and eventually he was asked to produce written instructional materials, including driver training manuals and operating procedures for motor pools. Mark had to learn how to communicate with all of them clearly, concisely, and effectively, and he found that he had a talent for teaching. These soldiers came to him from very different backgrounds, and their prior experience with heavy equipment and mechanical skills were similarly varied. He managed the operation of the motor pool, where he not only had to understand vehicle maintenance, he had to teach young soldiers how to maintain and operate motor pool vehicles. Mark then entered and served a full career as a Maintenance Warrant Officer in the United States Army. It wasn't long before he was working as an apprentice RV technician under the guidance of the RV service manager. He began at age 15, washing RVs at a dealership in North Central Pennsylvania. Here is the A&E pdf for replacing awning fabric with a chart on page 7 showing number of turns with,as you said, awning tube 2' from coach: If anyone is interested.Mark is an RVer and has a very extensive background in the RV industry. ![]() Yes it is not hard to break a wrist or hand if the installer makes a mistake. With the awning installed and extended just two feet, the spring should already be a tension of 13 turns ? I have a Dometic 9100, which from what i can tell has one spring oposite the motor end. So I just want to be completely clear before I go winding this up. My shirt probably saved me a little as it wound around the end of the mechanism and stopped the rotation early. My wrench slipped off and my hand caught most of the damage. It seems to me that starting at a tension of 13 turns with the awning only extended two feet would make it impossible for it to extend based off the 7 turns I got in the testing.Īnd yes that do bite hard. We got to 7 revolutions and it sounded like the motor probably could not go any further. We pressed the extend button and I counted turns. To test this with no awning attached and zero roller tension. I am not saying you are wrong but I am in the process of replacing mine and have to start from scratch with the spring tension. My math is not that great but based off the distance out (minus the 2 feet you mentioned) and the diameter of the tube, that would be another 6 turns tighter to extend fully. These things bite hard!ġ3 turns when it is just two feet out from the coach wall? That seems like a lot. Dometic sells a tool to assist with winding the spring, but you can do it using "other" tools.Īgain, please be very cautious. The spring is prewound in a direction that places the awning under tension when retracted, and then tensions further as the awning is deployed. The guidelines for 2 feet out from the coach wall are: It is easiest to wind it slightly away from the coach wall as it is under less (but still significant) tension and will give you a bit of wiggle room for moving it in or out to align pins, bolts, etc. The spring will injure you badly it it gets away from you. I've done this one time and will say that you need to be very careful and know what you are doing before you start. The number of turns depends on the length of the awning and how far away from the wall it is when you wind it. ![]()
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