Coleman lower plastic or air vanes

Dave Siegel · April 27, 2011, 05:11:57 AM

We have a Coleman rooftop air (15K) with broken air director vanes. Every time you try to adjust the airflow direction a vane breaks off in you hand. Does anyone know where I might be able to find some? I have tried Coleman with no luck, Camping World with no luck and even tried to Google them, all with no luck.

Thanks,
Dave

brando4905 · April 27, 2011, 05:17:31 AM

Dave,

I'm going through the same with my A/C units, cant find plastics anywhere. A couple of mine are suffering crackage and the filter grills won't stay in without tape. Surely there are some of these out there.

Brandon

Dave Siegel · April 27, 2011, 05:19:49 AM

I agree but I have not been able to find any for a couple of years now, when I saw your post it gave me the idea to try posting my request here. I would even be willing to buy the entire inner plastic housing just to get new vanes.

Dave

brando4905 · April 27, 2011, 05:25:15 AM

I had even thought about trying to make new covers out of wood, they sure would look purdy, but too much work for replacing lower plastic!

Dave Siegel · April 27, 2011, 05:33:57 AM

I don't think wood would work very well, I think the dust that gets sucked into the filters would get trapped in places that would be very hard to clean.

With that said I am sitting here in the kitchen pondering what I am about to write and I noticed that we have vinyl blinks on our kitchen window, I wonder if a slat of that vinyl could be modified with a plastic dowel on the back for up and down movement and then small vanes cut to fit that would twist side to side. I know that sounds desperate but what do you think?

Dave

bigjohnkub · April 27, 2011, 06:09:05 AM

Just a thought. Go to your local R.V. repair/sales place. Talk to the repair man, not salesman. Tyler r.v. changes A/C units and has a pile outback to haul off as scrap. He gave me an outer cover and there were several inner covers back there also.

Big John

DebDav · April 27, 2011, 10:04:08 AM

wrong post

Just Dallas · April 27, 2011, 11:25:28 AM

Dave..
Send me a picture of what you need.
I have a couple of the Coleman/RVP units here and might have what you want.
Do you have a part number?

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Dave Siegel · April 28, 2011, 02:40:32 AM

Thank you Dallas, I will go out this morning and take a couple of photos and send them along, matter of fact I'll even post them here.

Thanks again

Dave

Melbo · April 28, 2011, 07:39:43 AM

What about your local sheet metal fabricator (paint lock)

make the cover and the slats and you get to paint them the color you want

then rivet them so they will open and close

you can design the size and direction that you want the air to go and what color they should be

Just a thought

HTH

YMMV

Melbo