Re: Bending unbendable curtain tracks

["Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Phil. A definitive answer is nice, even if it's not the one I wanted
:-)

The only reason I asked was that I heard (second hand) of somebody that got
10 years use
out of a bent track and was wondering if I could get any details on the
likelihood of it
working for me.

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 9:19 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Bending unbendable curtain tracks


>
> > 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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