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General Boards => Technical Support => Topic started by: Keith Phillips on November 24, 2017, 07:08:32 PM
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On my 1992 Marquis there is a 3-4 inch section of all the opening windows that I can't get to to wash, I know the best thing would be don't wash the rest of the window and no one will notice, but to late. I am sure the screens come out somehow but I can't figure it out. Anybody ever worked with these windows. Thanks
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Hey Keith
Have you tried sliding the screens to about the mid way open position and holding the ends lift up and pop the bottom out?
Usually there are flat springs on top of the screen which fit in the track. These get stiff and the track a bit dusty and the screens get hard to remove. Vacuum the track real well and use just a spritz of slide lube up in the track. Slide the screen back and forth a few times and the springs will work better. Lift and pull the bottom out.
The overlap of the slide windows can be gotten from the inside with a damp paper towel but it is a pain.
Thats my experience, hope it helps!
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Our screens will come out as well by lifting them up against the upper retaining springs, then pull the bottom out of the lower track towards the interior of the coach. We wash our screens either in the sink or shower. We occasionally wash the dog's wet nose, jowl and tongue prints off the windows. lol
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Thanks for the help. Looks like my windows /screens are different. Doesn't seem to be springs above. Next time I get near an older Beaver, I'll check with the owner/maintainer and see if there is another way.
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Keith, can you supply a photo of the window(s) from the inside? Even our single-paned '85 Pace Arrow's screens worked the same way; as David and Keith described, normally a couple of narrow spring steel arches are in the screens' top. Simply lifting a screen a quarter inch against the tension into the upper rail slot allows you to tug the bottom towards you and out of the bottom rail.
Joel
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Pictures don't turn out or show much, but after much messing with the screens, there is a channel shaped piece of plastic top and bottom. The top one is short enough to slide and have room to lift the screen. The bottom piece is the full length of the window. If the bottom one was put in the opposite way the screen would come out past it, but the taller edge is in the way. I think 20 years ago the bottom plastic piece was probably flexible enough to slide out from under the screen for cleaning and put back in wrong. Not sure but I am going to try and get it out of there, hopefully it won't break but if it does I can get enough of it back in to support the screen. I'm sure that finding new channel would be difficult. Thanks for the advice. Keith