The PO of my 75 TW repaired all of the tambour doors excepr for one. My turn now! The one door is located under the oven and is not very tall. I have the material to repair it, but I can not figure out how to remove the door from the track! Any suggestions?
While rained in Saturday afternoon I took a good long look at similar location tambour doors on my Argosy. Gawrsh! Those look hard to get at. I agree -- it looks like something has to come apart. I have part of a wheelwell, the HW heater & the furnace under the sink-stove area. I can't say any specific approach to these horizontally sliding tambours suggests itself.
Mine don't need repair at least... C'mon folks -- Anybody done these??
Its been a while since I fiddled around with the tambours in a couple of AS trailers. But in my cases the "furniture did not need to be dismantled completely and actually IIRC (If I Recall Correctly) not at all.
Now my furniture was a different pieces than what you show on your picture.
Usually there is a method to gain access by removing something Id think.
Have you any chance looked at a service manual? I know they show an exploded view of most every piece of furniture. Unfortuneately sometime they do not show all the fasteners or give detailed "how to R&R" instructions, but often they do.
I did find 3 screws which appear to hold the bottom rail in place. The come from the bottom and are almost impossible to remove. They would most likely impossible to install later. I have come up with a better solution. I pushed the pieces all together and the door now is closed. I will wedge something in the track at the end to keep it that way. Not much room for storage behind it anyway. If I need to get to the water heater I can always remove the wedge and push the door back.
Hey there flycaster,
about to go thru similar hell on my 72 Overlander. Still looking for the tambour materials. Would you be so kind as to tell me where you got yours? Any hints on the horizontals, think I can handle the verticles.
Thanks, Miles
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For your first nugget, use the Airstream Forums search function and enter keywords: tambour winona. That produces 3 obvious threads to help you on your way. One of the better sources seems to be a business in Winona, MN.
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The PO of my 75 TW repaired all of the tambour doors excepr for one. My turn now! The one door is located under the oven and is not very tall. I have the material to repair it, but I can not figure out how to remove the door from the track! Any suggestions?
When I fixed ours it was some what simple, it came out from the top.
The only problem was the counter top was off.
That is the only way I can see to fix this problem.
It took me about 30 minutes to get the top off, but go slow you'll find lots of hidden screws holding the counter on. Hint check the ends through any walls.
As long as the counter is off you might think about tighening up the cabinate componets.
Good Luck.
I saw this material used as Tambour doors in an AS last week...I haven't check out the 'rugs' myself yet, but intend too...the 'door' I saw wasn't very wide, so I don't know how 'heavy' the material is, or how it would work for wider cabinets...the price seems right, though!
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