99-Am.Star:
Thank you, so much! I'm glad this travesty is finally at an end as well!!!
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Fl_Richard:
My saw is brand new and I've only tested it for a total of about 3 minutes on some soft plywood (plunge cut) because I'm also redoing my kitchen and bath floors. It still shouldn't need to be lubricated, should it?
Also....I have been removing the bolts and stuff that I can but how do you pull apart the rivet type things? They act as hinges for where the roller attached to the caps at the end of my awning arms. I'm trying to separate everything that I can and I'll cut the parts I need to down today.
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RV Wizard:
Those are already out! One of the springs broke but the other,
HOLY MOLEY
that thing unwound in a hurry!!!
Did that on Saturday when the awning came down off the trailer. Nobody got hurt! We're good!
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So.... the only thing I have to add here now is that the manager who hit the awning causing the damage in the first place came over here last night asking about removing the old/damaged awning parts for me. Um.... no.
I already cut up the awning. I have one part that I can lay on if I need to get under my trailer for any reason. I have a large section that I have placed on the ground outside my doors to walk on because it's all dirt there from the last resident who lived on this lot and I kept bringing in the dirt. I cut out two more large pieces and they are now "covers" for my wheels on both sides of the trailer. He did not seem pleased.
Then he asked if I wanted him to take care of all the old metal parts....um... no again. I told him that my TN neighbors have offered to take me in their van with my metal parts (which I will be cutting down today) to sell at the local salvage/recycling yard. Again, he was not a happy camper.
I was planning to take them in the little wagon I have that I pull behind my bicycle but the neighbors offered and I'm a bit concerned about the neighborhood where the salvage place is and riding on a bike alone through the area so when they offered I accepted.
All I can say is that after all the crap he gave me, trying to talk me into allowing him to put inferior used parts that may or may not even work (or work for very long) on my trailer, the lies about being covered by his insurance, INSULTING my trailer - the only thing I have on this entire earth to my name,
THREATENING me (I"m still waiting for that ax to fall on my head), and all the grief he gave me after I gave him over 2 months to make the repairs on his own before I called his insurance company (total time waiting for new awning was a little over 3 months) to the point where my awning actually ripped off my trailer, there is no way in hell I'd be giving him the damaged parts so HE can make money off them. I don't even know how he could ask such a question. It's just not right.
The photos show my re-use of the old vinyl awning fabric.