With an electric screwdriver you can remove the whole blind/flyscreen cassette and take it outside where you can lay it on something for support & scrub to your hearts content.

There are 8 - 12 screws under the little caps that you can remove with a sharp object, like a needle.

Delta18 wrote:

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With an electric screwdriver you can remove the whole blind/flyscreen cassette and take it outside where you can lay it on something for support & scrub to your hearts content.

There are 8 - 12 screws under the little caps that you can remove with a sharp object, like a needle.

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We have done this a number of times successfully, until we realised the screens started to shrink.  Have now had replaced, and won't be doing that again. 

Hey Jim wrote:

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Hi Lee Ann,

$3.00 Don't tell anyone else. A can of  Easy off red Lable oven cleaner.! Cover your nose and away from kids, spray on and rinse off with a fine mist from a hose, after five minutes.

NO MORE.

If you use a bit of used news paper and masting tape to protect the paint work on the van as you spray it on, as it is caustic soda and corrosive.

The caustic soda will lift it up and just hose it off fully.

Jim

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 For your information, caustic soda will eat away aluminium.It is the main ingredient in an alumina refinery. At the basics, bauxite is dissolved in caustic soda and later in the process the caustic soda is separated from the alumina which is then "cooked" and becomes a powder.

Put a caustic substance on your aluminium caravan at your peril.

The Phantom

Thanks every one for your suggestions, but I think I will use the water method...maybe put the water in a spray bottle and spray heaps of water on it, as I have 6 screens to do.

Lee-Ann

Aus-Kiwi wrote:

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I just use heaps of water .. Jet spraying from top down .. Sometimes with car wash in applicator.. Open window to dry..

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Phantom.

You should take off your goggles, so you can read the notes in full.  No one said here said anything about spraying the Aluminium frame or cladding and letting it sit for hours or days. This Lady wants help . The nylon flyscreens are the ISSUE HERE.

Domestic oven cleaner when used in the manner discribed will in no way have an effect on the finished product. When rinsed off it becomes TOTALLY Nutral.

Dust is attracked  to the fly screens by road grim and grease from the kitchen. The product is used around the world.

In stead of your continual attacks on good folks on here, Only trying to assist others.

What is your fix, as it seems you have nothing else to contribute period.

Best regards Jim

How about making some worth while contributions yourself for once

Hey Jim wrote:

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Phantom.

You should take off your goggles, so you can read the notes in full.  No one said here said anything about spraying the Aluminium frame or cladding and letting it sit for hours or days. This Lady wants help . The nylon flyscreens are the ISSUE HERE.

Domestic oven cleaner when used in the manner discribed will in no way have an effect on the finished product. When rinsed off it becomes TOTALLY Nutral.

Dust is attracked  to the fly screens by road grim and grease from the kitchen. The product is used around the world.

In stead of your continual attacks on good folks on here, Only trying to assist others.

What is your fix, as it seems you have nothing else to contribute period.

Best regards Jim

How about making some worth while contributions yourself for once

 

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 Hey Jim, how about you not posting information that could damage a caravan's cladding.

To post information that is technically unsound, at best, and downright stupid, at the least, is very dangerous.

I am sure you have read or heard about people being sued for things they have posted on the Internet. Just imagine what could happen to you if someone's van got damaged because they followed your advice.

You need to do a bit of research before you post.

And as for my contributions, I think you will find most of them helpful and informative. It is just that I do not have a method for cleaning the screens so rather than post poor advice, I choose to post none at all.

Glad to help save you from a messy situation because you are probably quite a nice fellow when all is said and done.

The Phantom

I would think Phantom advice is very wise , No matter what masking you do the product still has to run down on the cladding of the caravan , User beware . The method we use is one person on the inside and the other on the outside , Each with a damp cloth wiping in the same spot which does not put undue force on the screen .

John,

I could have saved you.

I wrote this back in 1982

Jim

Hi dog Box,

Are you still at  Reckitt and Colman. Sorry Reckett & Benkiser now.

I hear they may be selling the site.

Jim

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Hi Again Everyone / All.

Ok everyone to their own. Technically, if you feel uncomfortable using oven cleaner don't. full stop. I do use it on heaps of things, including the BBQ plate and reoil after.

Now How about Sugar soap diluted in a small icecream contained.( Please eat the ice cream first.) Two soft spongers, one working on the inside missers and Hubbie on the out side work in tandum. 

Jim

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As I mentioned before I wont be using Oven cleaner on my screens..as I am a bit scared of the outcome.

The sugar soap sounds like a good idea...I do have some in my cupboard, I might try this method.  Thank you Jim

DMaxer wrote:

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I remember watching some people cleaning the hull of an old steel boat and they used a sand blaster. If you backed the pressure of a tad maybe that would work!

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 Yep, sounds like a good idea.