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Posted by Ron Hardin on July 29, 2007, 10:29 am
I got a vinyl coated polyester patio door screen, which is strong enough to be
pet-stab proof, but it's very hard to roll/spline into the existing door frame.
The included roller tool got nowhere. I found the best substitute was rolling
the round
end of a 12" crescent wrench over the spline material, giving a lot of working
leverage, but it was slow work. Better ideas?
The material to be pressed in is sort of asterisk-shaped in cross-section.
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Posted by dadiOH on July 29, 2007, 10:47 am
Ron Hardin wrote:
> I got a vinyl coated polyester patio door screen, which is strong
> enough to be
> pet-stab proof, but it's very hard to roll/spline into the existing
> door frame.
You have the wrong size of spline.
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Posted by Charlie Bress on July 29, 2007, 12:03 pm
Try to roll the screening in first without the spline. Then, if it has held
its shape, add the spline afterward.
I don't know about polyester, but this works with fiber glass and aluminum.
Charlie
>I got a vinyl coated polyester patio door screen, which is strong enough to
>be
> pet-stab proof, but it's very hard to roll/spline into the existing door
> frame.
>
> The included roller tool got nowhere. I found the best substitute was
> rolling the round
> end of a 12" crescent wrench over the spline material, giving a lot of
> working
> leverage, but it was slow work. Better ideas?
>
> The material to be pressed in is sort of asterisk-shaped in cross-section.
>
> --
> rhhardin@mindspring.com
>
> On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
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Posted by bent on July 29, 2007, 2:21 pm
I have a cheap plastic tool which a rounded over arc on one end (creating a
groove in screen) and a grooved arc on the other (pushing spline into
created groove). Expereience and its a piece of cake, second nature. Not
too tight, not too loose, all in the right spots. This means if its a
window at the midpoints you can't have stress because the unsupported sides
flex in, so different pressure than near the corners. Have to properly
account for the creation of a groove in the screen itself too while
positioning the screen in the right orientation. First window you'll re-do
Not quite same with stronger frames. You can get it equal pressure
throughout.
>I got a vinyl coated polyester patio door screen, which is strong enough to
>be
> pet-stab proof, but it's very hard to roll/spline into the existing door
> frame.
>
> The included roller tool got nowhere. I found the best substitute was
> rolling the round
> end of a 12" crescent wrench over the spline material, giving a lot of
> working
> leverage, but it was slow work. Better ideas?
>
> The material to be pressed in is sort of asterisk-shaped in cross-section.
>
> --
> rhhardin@mindspring.com
>
> On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
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Posted by on July 29, 2007, 11:20 pm
wrote:
>I got a vinyl coated polyester patio door screen, which is strong enough to be
>pet-stab proof, but it's very hard to roll/spline into the existing door frame.
>
>The included roller tool got nowhere. I found the best substitute was rolling
the round
>end of a 12" crescent wrench over the spline material, giving a lot of working
>leverage, but it was slow work. Better ideas?
>
>The material to be pressed in is sort of asterisk-shaped in cross-section.
It sounds like you are using flat spline. Are you sure you have flst
spline frames? (not a round channel)
You use the grooved rooler end on flat spline, Roll the screen in,
then start one edge of the spline and roll in the other.
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