Is there a proprietary product for this purpose which I should know about?
My firm only has two trailers and one in particular is really suffering from ‘pull your tripe out’ syndrome when opening the flaming curtains. It’s wearing me out particularly on days when I have to open the bliddy things ten or a dozen times.
In the past fitters have ‘oiled’ the track but after a few weeks yer back to square one. I’ve recently had to open and close curtians on other peoples trailers and couldn’t believe how easy they were - minimal effort required.
there is a proper product to grease curtains that sticks to the runners and will not make a mess, it comes in tins (about 2 litres) but I forget the name of the stuff, it lasts months once it is applied, I would think most trailer repairers and manufacturers should have it
WD40 is a good water dispersant, but a lousy lubricant.
How about motorcycle chain grease (some of it is VERY sticky)? Comma spray grease? White spray grease as suggested above is good (especially if it’s got PTFE in it)
Thanks again.
The oil has clogged it up a tad, will suggest the duck variety.
Those curtains eh, on wet and windy days. The poles are heavy, very heavy. I got a hell of a bang in the face from one a couple of months ago. Eye came up like an egg and I had a fine example of a black eye! Just in time for my holidays en all. When the wind snatches the curtain from your grasp you just have to let go and all those flailing buckles resemble a many headed monster out to get you - that’s why I leg it 'til things have calmed down. I know a guy who lost his two front teeth to a curtain pole.
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Those curtains eh, on wet and windy days. The poles are heavy, very heavy. I got a hell of a bang in the face from one a couple of months ago. Eye came up like an egg and I had a fine example of a black eye! Just in time for my holidays en all. When the wind snatches the curtain from your grasp you just have to let go and all those flailing buckles resemble a many headed monster out to get you - that’s why I leg it 'til things have calmed down. I know a guy who lost his two front teeth to a curtain pole.
One of my ex workmates lost his licence for a year after getting a bang on the head from a curtain pole which knocked him out. He fitted due to the head injury so the DVLA suspended car and LGV licence immediately for the minimum 12 months. You may feel a twit wearng a hard-hat when opening the curtains on a windy day, but it might preserve your livelyhood
If the curtain starts flying about in the wind, the best thing you cn do is drop to the floor, it can’t get you there and it then gives you thinking time to sort out what to do next.
I learn’t this principle on a fire fighting course. If the hose is at high pressure and you let go of it, it will fly about like something not right, and with a honking great lump of metal on the end of it, watering eyes would be the least of your problems, answer, walk/run forward towards the fire and away from the full reach of the hose, then you have time to think about your next action.
The poles are heavy, very heavy. I got a hell of a bang in the face from one a couple of months ago. Eye came up like an egg and I had a fine example of a black eye! Just in time for my holidays en all. When the wind snatches the curtain from your grasp you just have to let go and all those flailing buckles resemble a many headed monster out to get you - that’s why I leg it 'til things have calmed down.
