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    Posted: 10 Feb 2014 at 9:25am
I forgot to mention that if you order from FR directly, you will incur a rather high shipping charge.  Sometimes your local dealer can consolidate orders and can actually sell it to you for less.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Feb 2014 at 5:53pm
So Kokopod, how do you actually seal the R-dome around the tires and steps and in the corners?  Can you take a picture the next time you have it set up and post it here?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Feb 2014 at 12:29pm
Sure will, but it will be a while. Best I can describe is that we put a slit through the slide screen at the steps (just big enough for the steps to slip through). We left all of the excess slide screen (on our dome it was about 3 feet too long)), and when we cut the slit for the steps, we made sure the screen had equal amounts of left-over screening on each side. We wrap that screen around the inside of the corners of the tent area (it's stiff because of the left-over track). We also put a couple of heavy objects, like a cooler, etc., on top of the screen overlap in those corners to hold everything in place. Hope you can picture it. Have to admit that the first couple of times we set up the R-dome, we made it a challenge and spent a lot of time playing with the issue of gap. You do have to work with it at first.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Feb 2014 at 1:29pm
We still have the CW step stool that we kept from our motor home days.  The Pod's step is not deep enough for us, so we have been using that stool instead.  Somewhere I read that another member uses a similar step stool which eliminates the need to cut a slit in the dome's skirt.  Just a thought....

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Feb 2014 at 1:42pm
Too late for us, but I'd vote for that solution to the slit in the screen to accommodate the step!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Feb 2014 at 9:58pm
Originally posted by SchipperPod

So Kokopod, how do you actually seal the R-dome around the tires and steps and in the corners?  Can you take a picture the next time you have it set up and post it here?
I'm not Kokopod, but I have some pictures of how I had a canvas shop alter our screening to fit over the steps and around the tires. They're toward the bottom of my MINOR MODS post:
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Feb 2014 at 11:18am
Thanks, sammycamper!!  That's pretty cool - and smart of you to have it done so professionally!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Feb 2014 at 11:20am
One more thing, I haven't even taken our R-dome out of the box yet.  Do they all come with the "screen skirt" that's in your "Minor Mods" post?  How is the screen skirt attached to the pod itself?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Feb 2014 at 11:22am
Originally posted by SchipperPod

One more thing, I haven't even taken our R-dome out of the box yet.  Do they all come with the "screen skirt" that's in your "Minor Mods" post?  How is the screen skirt attached to the pod itself?

yes you will have the screen for the bottom.  it fits in a C-Channel at the bottom.  i think we used ours twice?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Feb 2014 at 5:12pm
I went one step further, I removed the screen and replaced with solid material. Not only does it keep the bugs out, it also keeps out the wind and in spring and fall it keeps the heat in.
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