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Visit our outdoor blinds. ">REPRESENTATION OF UNDERSIDE OF AWNING SPREAD OUT READY FOR LINES AND PULLEYS. Make pockets in bottom hem for the ropes to fasten to front bar, at every other seam, and one at each corner ; pockets at corners four inches long ; centre pockets two and one-half inches long. Get your blacksmith to give you a small bar five-eighth iron, twelve inches long, with hole punched in, same size as hole in corner of front bar"; set that in bottom hem, close up to corner, and punch hole right through ; do this in both comers of bottom hem ; knock in a brass grommet ; if you have not tools for that purpose,work the hole around like button hole, it will answer just as well ; these holes are for corner extension rods. A little judgment is required to adjust the pulleys ; a new awning can be torn in a few days after it is put up, by not adjusting the pulleys properly ; pulleys on awnings are known as "rise ups and leaders ;" the leaders lead Hues from the rise ups to pull up the awning ; the rise ups are those by which the awning is raised up, and they are the ones that do the damage ; the pulleys must be hung in such a manner that the wheel of the pulley is on a line with the rings. If the leaders are to the left of rise up, the rise up will fasten one inch or two to the right of the Hine of rings, the object being, as stated, to bring wheel of pulley on line of rings. The best way to finish this part, is to stretch awning out, and adjust pulleys, tacking them on awning where they should go ; when you put awning up, cut tacking and fasten pulley on house ; lines should pull up at left side of store door as you come out (when door is in centre); but there is no rule for this, they can as well be arranged at either comer ; a wooden button must be placed on line between first ring and pulley ; this prevents cutting and chafing ; this is a necessity. Two and one-half inch pulley and five-eighth rings for rise and fall awnings in Melbourne. TO OEDEE FEAME. For awning twenty feet front, six feet up, and six feet six inches out, you will have four extension rods (if there is place to fasten them). Store fronts are differently built, sometimes with windows setting back at entrance, and again windows setting out from building, or with column between windows and door, this last affording good place for stump. When that is the case you want four stumps, four extension rods, and front bar the desired length. Frame to be five-eighth iron. You can have holes punched through ends of front bar for the two end extension rods. The two centre extension rods can clasp the front bar. By this arrangement the centre extension can be placed any place you see fit, and no trouble. The stumps will be made — if for brick or stone, three inches longer. This is the distance to set in the brick or stone : Drill hole five-eighth inch in diameter, put in stub and fill in with hot lead ; if front is sixteen feet wide you can dispense with centre extension rods. By having front bar gas pipe, three-quarter inch in diameter, it will not bend. In case front is wider, and no place for centre extension rod, then the side extension rods must be doubled, having a spread of four feet on front bar, the centre of front bar being gas-pipe. (By giving full measurement frames can be ordered and sent out to you.) It is possible to find a front where you cannot fasten stump to building. In that case a solid iron bar one inch diameter, securely fastened at tox3, above windows, and below, stump can be welded on bar. This will work securely. Where front is too wide for one awning, have stubs made shape of letter T, with nut each side, so two extensions can work on it. This will work nicely. Of course stub should be heavier iron — three-quarter inch. Where stub 11 over six inches from building it must be double. The single length is not strong enough of five-eighth iron unless it is a small awning. If store front is iron, holes must be cut and tapped for stubs, and if iron at top, holes must be cut and tapped same way for hooks. These hooks should be about five feet apart for head-rod ; head-rod five-eighth iron. Head-rod set in hooks. A good blacksmith or machinist will put up stumps and head-rod in half a day. By using a chisel the hole can be chipped out and tapped very quickly. They will prefer the drill, but induce them to use the chisel, and they will prefer it. Visit our outdoor blinds.
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