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08/8/2016 at 10:01am
Location: Lanarkshire
Outfit: Unicorn Cartagena & Discovery Sport
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Quote: Originally posted by chrisn7 on 08/8/2016
Also a word of caution. These pegs have a plastic hook which is quite tight on the metal peg, and so tends to spin with the peg. If your awning has the ladder type peg downs, it is very easy for the spinning hook to catch on the ladder, quickly creating a difficult situation. This happened to me the first time, luckily without incident. Another chap posted the same issue, except he got fingers trapped and significant injury, so take care!
Agree with the above , bought some of these earlier this year as replacements for some of my original screw pegs which have been bent and damaged over many years of use. I didn't like the way the plastic hooks spun and twisted the awning ladders but found that with the aid of a pair of pliers you could get the hook off, I then drilled the hole out a size bigger so that the hook shouldn't turn along with the screw peg. Still to try them though.
I've also done similar to countrymusicfan and bought some coach screws and large penny washers. I found that tool station has a better selection of diameters and lengths than Screwfix. Got some 8m x 200m which seem to be the same as my originals and slightly longer than the blue diamond. I also got some 10m wing nuts to put on upside down under the washers to act as a form of hook, someone else's idea, not mine, but thought it would work. Still to try these out as well.
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