These really great looking new roll down shades !

[DreamStreamr]

Here are some fresh pictures from our CCD 25 into which we installed the OceanAIR shades September 2007. (I hope this works, and I will post these to Forums photos tonight also)
http://lh5.google.com/dreamstreamr/R...I/IMG_2814.jpg
http://lh3.google.com/dreamstreamr/R...k/IMG_2815.jpg
http://lh5.google.com/dreamstreamr/R...E/IMG_2818.jpg
http://lh4.google.com/dreamstreamr/R...k/IMG_2821.jpg

You may see these cassette shades are closer to the wall surface than roller shades because of the way the mounts and cassettes are arranged. And with the sizes Airstream Co Customer Service helped us select most of the shades just fit between the window lifts on our CCD, so tuck in very neatly and have almost zero gap for those dozens of people trying to look into our Airstreams without first knocking on the door.

The background story:

We were not happy with the plain look of the white vinyl roller shades with open wall mountings. The first time we saw the OceanAIR shades we thought, this is THE solution. We shopped these online and were shocked with the costs from yacht outfitters. Nonetheless we sent inquiries to two yacht outfitters. Zero responses. Okay, call it beginner's luck -- we might have done something outrageous if they had offered good customer service, like purchased from them.

Instead we two months later were at Jackson Center for unrelated business and spent a little more time in the "Store" than we planned. Found one slightly nicked OceanAIR shade at 1/2 price. Thought, what the heck, let's try it. Installed it in the bathroom. Looked so sharp. Went back and with excellent help from Customer Service staff we purchased the other six shades. They gave us a price of approx $700 for all, well less than the yacht outfitters. Required approx two hours to install these -- the one over the dinette table is sort of in the roof locker and took one of the two hours by itself. No, it took two hours by itself. That's another story. Ask me and I will share it.

[DreamStreamr]

I apologize if the urls I placed in previous post doesn't link you to the pictures of the OceanAIR shades. You probably could copy them out to a browser window and see them or you can now find them on this forum's photographs under the category of Airstreams 2000s or by finding Dreamstreamr's photos in this forum. We haven't posted all that many (and the pictures are fascinating anyway) so it shouldn't be too painful to find these four pictures.

Thanks for your good-hearted patience. (okay, I'm just assuming that's what kept you from berating me for being so slack about getting these to the forum)

[DreamStreamr]

Our 2005 CCD 22 had only two roof lockers, for roadside and curbside. The roller shades were mounted recessed into the bottom of the curbside roof locker (above the dinette). The roller shades were mounted to the wall under the roadside roof locker (over the galley). We thought it was kinda odd to do them so distinctly differently but declared it one of the divine oddities of Airstreams. We would have been no more surprised if another 2005 CCD 22's roller shades were installed differently from ours.

The interesting part to this, really, is the task we anticipated if we wanted to change our window treatments on the CCD 22. The recessed roller shade was mounted so you could remove the roof locker to access the screws holding the shade's brackets. Really! We decided, if we were to install levolors or something, we would have to abandon the old brackets and just push them over and out of the way somehow. Removal of the roof locker just didn't seem worthwhile.

Our new Airstream, a 2005 CCD 25 (built four months later in 2004 than the 22 was) is done differently. The recessed roller shade was installed with screws through the end brackets up into the recess of the roof locker. Not a difficult reach to unscrew and remove these.

Thank you to the production designer/manager or the mechanic who wised up and installed the recessed roller shade brackets in a maintainable manner.[IMG]images/smilies/wally.gif[/IMG]

[DreamStreamr]

Ed,
We saved the roller shades and brackets from the seven windows. We will decide very soon whether any of these should be used in our '79 Argosy. Regardless some of these will be available and we'll be happy to figure out how to get them to you. Check with us after December 6? Thanks.