How To Seal Awning Rail

In this video tutorial we will be showing how to make a rather sharp radial bend to flex a rail awning track.

How to seal awning rail.

Pretty yucky behind the end caps sealant is poor as well. This awning track will be used to secure an aft. Rub rail rub rail where art thou radman. Note the poor quality mastic some was silicone sealant it was a right pain to remove don t use it for external sealing use the right stuff.

Awning rail leak and removal. Next remove the rail trim. First remove the rail end caps. I was advised to use a gun based sealant geobond to seal and a mastic strip to go between the rail and van.

Where should i put the sealant. Awning rail snaps bevman. Quest awning rail zip lubricant spray. In short the sealant has shrunk in places and there s an odd small gap this just proves that its worth using good materials for these simple jobs.

Ok had a look today and the conclusion is that the muppets that fitted the awning largest mh supplier in suisse used a cheapo grade of sealant for the 7 8mm gap between the awning body and the van. We used sealant in all screw holes other holes splits the endcaps if fitted and anywhere that the tape simply wouldn t go such as in the overlaps then used the tape sealant under the rail. Found the awning rail. Where there s a marketplace for something anyway this spray helps to ensure the rubber seals on the awning rail last as long as possible.