I got a vinyl coated polyester patio door screen, which is strong enough to be
pet-stab proof, but it's very hard to roll/spline into the existing door frame.

The included roller tool got nowhere. I found the best substitute was rolling the round
end of a 12" crescent wrench over the spline material, giving a lot of working
leverage, but it was slow work. Better ideas?

The material to be pressed in is sort of asterisk-shaped in cross-section.

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Ron Hardin wrote:
I got a vinyl coated polyester patio door screen, which is strong
enough to be
pet-stab proof, but it's very hard to roll/spline into the existing
door frame.

You have the wrong size of spline.

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Try to roll the screening in first without the spline. Then, if it has held
its shape, add the spline afterward.
I don't know about polyester, but this works with fiber glass and aluminum.

Charlie

"Ron Hardin" wrote in message
...
I got a vinyl coated polyester patio door screen, which is strong enough to
be
pet-stab proof, but it's very hard to roll/spline into the existing door
frame.

The included roller tool got nowhere. I found the best substitute was
rolling the round
end of a 12" crescent wrench over the spline material, giving a lot of
working
leverage, but it was slow work. Better ideas?

The material to be pressed in is sort of asterisk-shaped in cross-section.

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On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

I have a cheap plastic tool which a rounded over arc on one end (creating a
groove in screen) and a grooved arc on the other (pushing spline into
created groove). Expereience and its a piece of cake, second nature. Not
too tight, not too loose, all in the right spots. This means if its a
window at the midpoints you can't have stress because the unsupported sides
flex in, so different pressure than near the corners. Have to properly
account for the creation of a groove in the screen itself too while
positioning the screen in the right orientation. First window you'll re-do
Not quite same with stronger frames. You can get it equal pressure
throughout.

"Ron Hardin" wrote in message
...
I got a vinyl coated polyester patio door screen, which is strong enough to
be
pet-stab proof, but it's very hard to roll/spline into the existing door
frame.

The included roller tool got nowhere. I found the best substitute was
rolling the round
end of a 12" crescent wrench over the spline material, giving a lot of
working
leverage, but it was slow work. Better ideas?

The material to be pressed in is sort of asterisk-shaped in cross-section.

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On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.



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