Have been reading about the danger of the awning unfurling will driving. Is this areal
concern ? Our MH has the auto awning. My husband thinks this might be a concern for manual awnings. What about it ?? Have seen they clamps that are used to prevent the unfurling.
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Have been reading about the danger of the awning unfurling will driving. Is this areal
concern ? Our MH has the auto awning. My husband thinks this might be a concern for manual awnings. What about it ?? Have seen they clamps that are used to prevent the unfurling.
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I've never seen it, but someone in England on this forum I think had a motor home that experienced it. I made a tie rod that hooks in a strap bolted to the end of the roller and hooks in the bottom of the arm.
My parents have a motorhome and the switch of the roller is backwards. I had it flipped up and 15 miles down the road it had unrolled about 4 feet of awning. Really fun trying to get it rolled back up on a windy day on the side of the highway!
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I've never seen it, but someone in England on this forum I think had a motor home that experienced it. I made a tie rod that hooks in a strap bolted to the end of the roller and hooks in the bottom of the arm.
On earlier models of Dometic (A&E) manual awnings they used fine teeth brass gears (very soft) and with strong winds unrolling was a possibility (happened to me). The gears on my replacement spring assembly have been deeper and not as fine toothed steel/aluminum gears and appears to have stopped this trait. The change occured sometime ago.
The unit I referred to in England was a new style power awning. If the motor assy shears the pin inside the roller, the awning will unroll.
It is a very simple, easy project to guarantee the awning will not unroll, so why chance it when it will prevent several hundred dollars damage to the unit plus a $1000+ awning?
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