Curtain Glides

While removing everything from the Overlander’s interior for the refurb, I noted in passing that many of the curtain glides were broken.  Although prone to going overboard on repairing things that are best replaced, I remember putting “glides” on my shopping list because not even I would think about repairing a 37 year piece of simple plastic.

But unfortunately, the glide in this composite picture was the best I could come up with.

Luckily though, someone over at VintageAirstream.com had posted a very good repair idea which involved gluing nylon washers to a milled surface.  Since I had a lot of glides to do, a jig was constructed for my drill press to make the task faster & easier.

But just to make sure I spent a whole lot more time on this task than I ever dreamed of, my new curtains had 12 or so more hooks in them than the original ones did.

To accommodate the new hooks, Some standard curtain glides were modified with a small steel modified eye lag screw.

All said & done, I now wish I had just made 112 of these new glides because the plastic used in them slides much easier than the original, repaired glides.