GORV - Digital Magazine Issue #40 | Page 45

For your chance to win, send us a highresolution image and brief description of the clever modifications you’ve made to your RV, or the handy solutions you’ve found to common touring problems. Our favourite will win the Pizza Oven! Note: your submission will possibly appear in GoRV, along with your name. Email your entry to [email protected], with ‘RV Workshop’ in the subject line. + ENTER NOW PERMANENT AWNING “I could not do without my ‘permanent awning clothesline’,” Kay Barnett wrote in an email to GoRV. “For under $30 and about 10 minutes to install, this has to be one of the handiest and most-used DIYs my husband has done on our van! No more tying up ropes – as soon as we roll out the awning, the clothes line is there ready to use!” Kay says that all you need can be bought at the local hardware: • 2mm PVC-coated galvanised wire – enough for the length of your awning; • 2x3.2mm stainless swages; • 1x5mm stainless D-shackle; • 1x5mm stainless turnbuckle; • 2x6mm stainless eye bolts; and • 2x6mm stainless nyloc nuts. Drill a hole in each side of the awning arm, about 85mm from the roller (check when you roll your awning up that there’s sufficient clearance for the door). Insert the eye bolts and nuts into the awning arms, put one end of the wire through the D shackle to form a loop and then crimp with a swage. Attach this to one of the eye bolts, attach the turnbuckle (fully extended out) to the other eye bolt, pull through the galvanised wire, taking up most of the slack, form a loop, and crimp with a swage. Then do up the turn buckle to tighten the wire (don’t over tighten). “I have found this clothesline invaluable and so handy. No worries if it starts raining as the clothes are protected by the awning. I hope you find this little project helpful.”