Saturday, September 20, 2014

Curtains for the Land Rover

Well, in my attempt to take my 109 to the Overland Expo in May I had a need for some curtains. I wound up getting swimsuit material because it is stretchy and opaque. My color choice turned out to be camo. Because my sewing skills are not up to stretchy material I sourced out the actual construction to a local sewing place.
    To make a long story short he didn't have them done on time and the one that was done was wrong. Eventually they were made correctly but the 109 didn't make it to Arizona.
   My design was to just have bungee sewn inside the hem of the curtain and I could just stretch them over the side windows, much like a shower cap, I can even have the window open to get some air in.

Here's the inside of a finished side window curtain;


From the inside it looks like this on the window;


From the outside the side window looks like;




The front and back curtains are of different construction, they needed to have a pass through hem so I could then run a bungee in it and hook it to the inner raingutter. The front one is wider to reach full from side to side whist the rear only needs to cover the window in the door.
     I had a duece of a time trying to figure out how to clamp the bungee to the raingutter. At first I tried making plain 90deg hooks and attaching them to the bungee. I couldn't get the hooks to stay on the gutter, but I did learn that I could ziptie the bungee to the hook when tying it didn't work. Next I made a more complicated hook which with a "W" shape it actually held onto the gutter but wasn't quite "right" for me. Then I hit on the idea of using a binder clamp and ziptying the bungee to one of the handles. Brilliant!
    So with a bit of time and cutting and zipping I am satisfied, the curtain is taut, simples, and easy.

Here's the front from outside;


And from the inside;


The rear from the outside;


With the door open;


From the inside;


How the bungee's are attached;




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