[VAC] Awning storage solution?

[Rivka <airstream@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Might be totally barking up the wrong Airstream, but it seems that i 
keep hearing people complain about making/using older "pole style" 
awnings. complaining mostly about set-up and take-down.

  now maybe this has already been thought of, or maybe someone can 
tell me why it wont work, otherwise it seems like a nice solution to 
this problem of having to pull of and on the plain pole awnings 
people have in older models.


***now im assuming that what we are starting with is basically just a 
square/rectangular piece of fabric, run in the channel connected to 
the trailer, with some rigid front edge and two poles at the corners.

(i may be partially wrong about that assumption, but it's what i 
gather from looking a bunches of photos.)

so if the problem is having to feed it in and then pull it out if the 
channel for each use, then hear the idea...

1 flip the upright poles up horizontal to meet up with the main front edge pole
2 roll it up, incasing all three poles, all the way to the trailer 
body as tight and neat as possible (rolling under i think is a 
important thing as not to catch water later)
3 at some point before you are now standing holding a heavy roll, 
hopefully you have installed a few snap taps that go from bottom to 
top of the roll, snaping back into the trailer.
thus keeping it rolled and tightly hugging the outer skin, hopefully 
neatly to be more than sufficient to travel with in place.
( i also have a idea for doing it without mounting this snap fitting 
in the skin for those people not willing to change the skin)

really hope this has already been done, it seems paper clip obvious.

let me know


ps, for cool style points i would think it great to line the last 8 
inches or so (whatever showed on the outside on the last roll) with 
silver material, so that when rolled up, it would blend/match the 
skin styling more.
-- 
Rivka  & "Destiny"
My '66 Airstream Ambassador