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rollinstone
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Posted: 23 Jul 2013 at 6:44pm |
OK...I can remove the screens from the windows of my house, but tried and tried to remove the screens from the Pod's windows...how, please?
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Rollinstone
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Sleepless
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I am having the same problem. One of my screens has a small tear in it.
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rollinstone
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Anyone?
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rollinstone
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OK...I finally got thru to the dealership. The top of the track or screen frame is spring loaded. Push the screen up from the bottom and pull out from the bottom when bottom of the screen frame clears the track. That's what they said...now I gotta go try it!
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rollinstone
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Dang it! I spoke too soon. It didn't work. It seems the only way to get the screen out is to cut it out...and I ain't going to do that. Really...how can something that should be so simple be so hard...or impossible?
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Rollinstone
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Sleepless
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Bummer. I was hoping you had found the answer. Lat week I tried all the methods used on my previous travel trailers and MHs to remove the pod screens. Nothing worked. There has to be a simple solution, but it seems to be escaping all of us.
Thank you for making that call. Bob |
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furpod
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I was able to gently flex the screen frame, and pull it out going in the "closing" direction, flexing it just enough to clear the frame..
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R&T's Pod
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That is odd about the screens. In our pod, when ever we open a window, we have to be careful the screen doesn't come out too. -- Rob
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rollinstone
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I'll give that another try, but I'm thinking the 2014 178 isn't going to relent...report later. What's the ph number for Forest River Customer Service? Their website doesn't have it...anyone. |
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rollinstone
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Finally! But it wasn't easy. As Furpod said, you need to bend the screen frame ever so slightly taking great care you don't go beyond that point where the frame is going to buckle. I exerted most of my outward pressure at the bottom of the frame convincing the plasticized track that it was time to give 'er up...and it popped out.
Now the trick is to get it back in. To do that I used a thin wooden butter knife (Thanks, Honey!). Holding the frame in at the top, I just barely got a point of the bottom part of the frame over the plasticized track by puling the track back just a little, and then shoe horned the rest of it in with the wooden knife... If I have to take it out again, I'll use the butter knife to shoe horn it out. Dang what a PITA! |
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