Small Things
A few weeks ago when I was working in the Ambassador I stepped on the shower curtain and pulled three of the curtain tabs loose.
So today I took a few minutes to sew the tabs back on. You can get these tabs from Vintage Trailer Supply.
Here is a shot of the tabs I sewed on the curtain.
Here is the final product.
Since I had the needle and thread out, I went ahead and fixed the room divider. It has metal rods that help form the curtain and they were all loose because the thread holding it together are missing.
There were lots of bad spots on this divider. This took forever to fix by hand. We have one of those portable handheld sowing machines but I have no idea how to use it…. bad for me. At least its done and holding together.
Ya, its ugly,,, but done.
Last little job was the door stop. There was a dried up rubber door stop to keep the door handle from contacting the trailer skin. I had purchased a rubber plug and made a replacement but it did not last.
I happened to run across a rubber foot from an old piece of electronic equipment. It looked perfect for the job.
That should do it. Nice to be down to such small repairs 
June 1st, 2008 at 6:00 am
Tim,
The “little” projects look great. I’m glad to see you tackled the fanfold door. I was just looking at a few loose threads on the one in my ‘63 GT. We are having Tammy (Silverthreads) make some new curtains and it occurred to me that the fanfold door could be re-made using the existing rods and hardware incorporating the same material as the curtains. Sounds like a good winter project…thanks for the inspiration.
Steve
September 25th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I just wanted to mention that it is ok to sew with a machine over those plastic curtain tabs. It doesn’t hurt the machine at all!
Also, I resewed my own divider curtains in our Ambassador and used all the old materials, except the rods. I actually made the curtains double-sided, so it was quite thick and didn’t need the extra rusty rods in there. I did use the rod on the wall and the handle. It worked really slick.