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I'm trying to find a shower curtain to fit to a rail that's already
there but seems to lack some parts.

What I have is an aluminium track attached to the wall at either end
and supported by a fitting from the ceiling.

The runners run in a groove in the inner side of the track and they
have small nylon posts with rounded ends that stick out horizontally,
about 4mm in diameter and about 6mm long with rounded ends and a small
groove round their circumference very near the end.

My guess is that some sort of fitting attaches to these posts almost
like a press stud but I don't know if they are available separately or
if anyone knows what brand this item may be?

Thanks
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What I have is an aluminium track attached to the wall at either end
and supported by a fitting from the ceiling.

The runners run in a groove in the inner side of the track and they
have small nylon posts with rounded ends that stick out horizontally,
about 4mm in diameter and about 6mm long with rounded ends and a small
groove round their circumference very near the end.


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On Oct 31, 5:48*pm, Murmansk69 wrote:
I'm trying to find a shower curtain to fit to a rail that's already
there but seems to lack some parts.

What I have is an aluminium track attached to the wall at either end
and supported by a fitting from the ceiling.

The runners run in a groove in the inner side of the track and they
have small nylon posts with rounded ends that stick out horizontally,
about 4mm in diameter and about 6mm long with rounded ends and a small
groove round their circumference very near the end.

My guess is that some sort of fitting attaches to these posts almost
like a press stud but I don't know if they are available separately or
if anyone knows what brand this item may be?

Thanks


Sounds like a croydex curtain rail, if the ali is H shaped, plus the 4
ends on the H are rounded over, resulting in a slot along the top and
another along the bottom.

Depending on where the support from the ceilng is, you may be able to
just use curtain rings on it over the whole rail, and remove the weak
little things.


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Sounds like a croydex curtain rail, if the ali is H shaped, plus the 4
ends on the H are rounded over, resulting in a slot along the top and
another along the bottom.

Depending on where the support from the ceilng is, you may be able to
just use curtain rings on it over the whole rail, and remove the weak
little things.

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No, it's not H shaped in cross section, the slot in which these
runners run is on the inside so they point horizontally - but I did
come across one like you described the other day at someone's house
and it suspect this one is the same brand as the fittings to wall and
ceiling were similar so that may be a clue thanks
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Suspect it is Croydex

This link shows drawing of item in question

http://freecycle.murmansk.mm.st/Shower%20(Large).jpg


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On Nov 1, 10:49*am, Murmansk69 wrote:
Suspect it is Croydex

This link shows drawing of item in question

http://freecycle.murmansk.mm.st/Shower%20(Large).jpg


I dont recognise that one. I guess curtain pole rings are no good for
you.


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Sounds like a croydex curtain rail, if the ali is H shaped, plus the 4
ends on the H are rounded over, resulting in a slot along the top and
another along the bottom.

Depending on where the support from the ceilng is, you may be able to
just use curtain rings on it over the whole rail, and remove the weak
little things.


If its the one I have they use them in hospitals to hold up the screens.
They are the strongest rail/loop I have seen and mine is 28 years old and
not one of the "weak little things" has broken.

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I'm trying to find a shower curtain to fit to a rail that's already there but seems to lack some parts.What I have is an aluminium track attached to the wall at either end and supported by a fitting from the ceiling.The runners run in a groove in the inner side of the track and they have small nylon posts with rounded ends that stick out horizontally, about 4mm in diameter and about 6mm long with rounded ends and a small groove round their circumference very near the end.My guess is that some sort of fitting attaches to these posts almost like a press stud but I don't know if they are available separately or if anyone knows what brand this item may be?Thanks


A few years have gone by now but did you ever find 'the studs' you needed as I now have the same problem as you and knew what you meant imediately. The house we have just moved to had the fittings but as I was doing a job in the house,my wife and son put up a new shower curtain with hooks and apparently discarding the needed 'studs' as without them,a curtain on hooks will not pull past the rod to the ceiling. I will keep searching but just wondered how you got on. 'Merry Christmas to you'
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Good grief I nearly fainted when a reply came up four years later!

I can't remember much about the item in question but I seem to think I did see a support rod for the rail in question online somewhere but the person whose rail it was did not want to shell out for it.

I can't remember anything except I'm fairly sure it was indeed a Croydex rail.

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It sounds like a croydex but I am having difficulty finding the fittings you describe.


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