RE: Bending unbendable curtain tracks

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

> I know you're not supposed to do it, but has anyone here
> successfully bent a silent gliss
> curtain track? I was hoping to get an auto glide dawn & dusk and
> then connect it to CBus.
> I want it primarily for a bay window with two 45 degrees bends
> (one bend per curtain). The
> purpose-built bay tracks are ridiculously expensive.
>
> My total track length would be about 2.8m

The answer is "Not a hope in hell"...

...the rail is quite "thick" and has several channels which must
maintain
their spacing for the curtains and drive belts to run in. If you attempt to
bend the rail it will buckle and you will knacker it up completely.

There were bend kits available for the old plastic Autoglide system but
they
were soon discontinued for the simple reason that people (in general) don't
read instructions fully and cocked it up. One of the reasons that Silent
Gliss went the "made to length" route was that most of the
failures of the
original Autoglide system were down to being incorrectly cut to size and
the
drive tapes being made the wrong length and hence causing failure of either
the drive sprockets or the drive tapes.

Phil


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