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03-30-2016, 11:29 AM
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Furnace vent screen covers -- leave on while towing?
We just picked up our new Coachmen Clipper 17fq, and are getting it ready. One of the suggestions we followed was to buy the small circular screen covers for the furnace vents, to keep critters out. They connect by small springs that hook onto the vent with an included tool.
My question -- do I leave the screens on all the time, even when towing? Or do I only put them on when we get to the camp area, and take them off before we travel back home?
Thanks for putting up with the rookie questions 
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03-30-2016, 11:56 AM
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Join Date: May 2013
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Im 99% seasonal and pull my trailer twice a year. Never had a problem with furnace vents.
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03-30-2016, 12:00 PM
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Location: Oswego il
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All three of my 5er's have had the critters screens on them and have towed my all over the country with them on. As you drive down the highway the wind will pass thru the screen openings so there should be no issue with them.
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03-30-2016, 12:14 PM
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I leave them on. Have for 3 years with no problem.
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03-30-2016, 12:16 PM
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Leave 'em on.
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03-30-2016, 12:16 PM
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Location: Wisconsin
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Leave them on. Just one less thing to do during set up.
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03-31-2016, 11:46 AM
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I got aluminum screen scrap from ACE and put it on the inside of the cover. Just pull off the cover, cut the screen in a square a little bigger than the circular hole, press it in, put the cover back on and you're good to go.
Works great and cheap. ACE gave me the screen for free
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03-31-2016, 11:48 AM
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Leave em on. They will be fine
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03-31-2016, 01:38 PM
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Location: Northfield MN
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hbidlack
We just picked up our new Coachmen Clipper 17fq, and are getting it ready. One of the suggestions we followed was to buy the small circular screen covers for the furnace vents, to keep critters out. They connect by small springs that hook onto the vent with an included tool.
My question -- do I leave the screens on all the time, even when towing? Or do I only put them on when we get to the camp area, and take them off before we travel back home?
Thanks for putting up with the rookie questions |
Mine have been on for a couple of years. They've never come off when towing.
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03-31-2016, 01:49 PM
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Professional Curmudgeon
Join Date: Sep 2013
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Havasu Bill
I got aluminum screen scrap from ACE and put it on the inside of the cover. Just pull off the cover, cut the screen in a square a little bigger than the circular hole, press it in, put the cover back on and you're good to go.
Works great and cheap. ACE gave me the screen for free |
This is the way to go. I have also used aluminum window screen mesh on the inside of the water heater cover and refrigerator vents. 
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03-31-2016, 01:57 PM
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Georgia Rally Coordinator
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They are meant to be left on permanently. Later RJD
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03-31-2016, 09:33 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Southeast PA
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Well I never even thought to look for these.....................I taped up the furnace vents, WH vents and fridge vents when I winterized to keep the damned stinkbugs out. These sites cost me money again! But the stinkbugs are a pain in the *****.
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03-31-2016, 10:52 PM
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We've had them on all of our trailers for years. They stayed on with no problems going down the road.
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04-02-2016, 04:15 PM
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Location: austinburg ohio
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I would never be without them and never had a problem towing with them. My popup one year a mouse found the heater vents and thought it would be a good place to store corn from the corn field and that summer on a cool night we had roasted corn in my heater.  
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04-02-2016, 04:29 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: South East
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Havasu Bill
I got aluminum screen scrap from ACE and put it on the inside of the cover. Just pull off the cover, cut the screen in a square a little bigger than the circular hole, press it in, put the cover back on and you're good to go.
Works great and cheap. ACE gave me the screen for free |
I was going to do this but was concerned about blocking exhaust flow and burning the material up. So these are not issues with using screen? I think it's a great idea. I hate those screens but I hate critters in my appliances more.
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04-03-2016, 08:08 AM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: North Charleston, SC
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Never have removed mine in 4 years.
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04-03-2016, 08:41 AM
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Left Coast
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: vancouver,washington
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And screen off the AC outside vents...
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04-03-2016, 08:51 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Liverpool NY
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[QUOTE=hbidlack;1146735]We just picked up our new Coachmen Clipper 17fq, and are getting it ready. One of the suggestions we followed was to buy the small circular screen covers for the furnace vents, to keep critters out. They connect by small springs that hook onto the vent with an included tool.
My question -- do I leave the screens on all the time, even when towing? Or do I only put them on when we get to the camp area, and take them off before we travel back home?
Once you put them on with that included tool, you won't be too anxious to do the job again any too soon and will be glad you can leave them on. Spoken by a senior citizen with bifocals.
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04-03-2016, 10:49 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: South East
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I tossed the tool that came with them and used Hemostats instead. Made it a little easier.. Also wire ties work well on the places you can remove and heat is not an issue.
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