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Slippy venetian blind cords
Huge wrote: We have two John Lewis venetian blinds which rely on a captive knurled nut to prevent the cords from slipping - the cord is supposed to grip the nut which fits into a tapered sleeve & clamps the cord, preventing it from running out (hard to describe, sorry). Over the years, this arrangement has slowly stopped working, the nut no longer grips the cords which slowly run through the arrangement & the blind goes down, accompanied by amusing squeeking and groaning noises. So, is there any way I can make it work properly again? Possibly by treating the cords with something? -- "The road to Paradise is through Intercourse." [email me at huge [at] huge [dot] org [dot] uk] I have this problem so I will be glad to see if there is a remedy. Some of the things that I do to stop the blinds slipping is to push the knurled wheel up tight against the cord with a stick. Easy for me to do as the blinds are in the box room converted into an office so it is easy to reach out and do, not so easy in a living room or kitchen. I did replace one of the cords but it was only a temporary solutions. I sometimes find that yanking the cords sharply gets the knurled wheel to lock in place but now the cords are fraided to badly. I also tried rubbing chalk on the cords but agian it only helped temparariy. I think that the only solution is to replace the cords and considering the effort and expense it might be simpler to change the blinds. Kevin |
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:14:26 +0100, Huge wrote:
So, is there any way I can make it work properly again? Possibly by treating the cords with something? You could try rosin. Do you know a violinist? John Schmitt |
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In message , Huge
writes We have two John Lewis venetian blinds which rely on a captive knurled nut to prevent the cords from slipping - the cord is supposed to grip the nut which fits into a tapered sleeve & clamps the cord, preventing it from running out (hard to describe, sorry). Over the years, this arrangement has slowly stopped working, the nut no longer grips the cords which slowly run through the arrangement & the blind goes down, accompanied by amusing squeeking and groaning noises. Are you sure that the knurled nuts are free to move up and down, or is something preventing them locking the cord in place ? -- geoff |
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Buy some new nylon cord, weld it onto the bottom end of the existing
cord and pull it through. It only takes about half an hour to restring them. Regards Capitol |
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On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 11:30:38 +0100, Huge wrote:
[rosin to improve CoF] It was. Came the next day, and works an absolute treat. Strongly recommended. No more slippy cords! Good grief! Two wins in a single weekend. Not only has the rosin worked, but a friend of mine waiting for his cataract operation who could not read the manual for his new DVD unit had his problems eliminated on my suggestions. Became involved in a barbie on Sunday, so I seem to be on a winning streak. John Schmitt -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
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