Hi Bob,
My A/S also has snaps on the curbside, mine are for attaching an add-on screen room to from the awning to the trailer. The snaps start at the front near the awning arm ,also at the rear awning arm, and from back to front about 1 foot up on the body and around the wheel wells. My awning is a
carefree, circa 1976 and the screen room has 5 sections, three of them are screened. One slides into the awning roller, one at each end, zipped to the piece hanging from the roller, each of those snaps to the trailer and is velcroed to the awning itself. The two solid sections (they are the same mat'l as the awning) snap to the lower portion of the trailer to form a "Bug Barrier" between the trailer and the ground.

Very simple and effective. We have used ours extensively while Camping near the Jersey Shore where all sorts of biting insects abound, (Greenhead flies, deer flies, strawberry flies, gnats and mosquitoes) and can sit outside in the screen room with relative impunity. Takes about 5 minutes to
attach, and is well worth the effort.

S. W. Sandy
WBCCI # 4159 & VAC
1970 27' Overlander
South West New Jersey
swsandy@jnlk.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Noyes <boojum@pacbell.net>
To: airstream@airstream.net <airstream@airstream.net>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [a/s] Snaps on Airstream outer skin??

>On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:07:25 -0600, Burt Gearhart wrote:
>>My Airstream has male snaps on the outside (on the Door side).
>>What are they to be used for?
>
>To attach females? ;o)
>
>OK, I don't really know.