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Day/night Shade string Hold-down Reel

I do not know if that is what this part is called. But can someone help with the sourcing for one of these little tiny reels?
Edit: sorry about the sideway picture.
Peter & Beth Martin
No Forrest? What have you done?
MC# 15890 until Dec 2016; FMCA #F329677
Cincinnati, OH

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Reply #1 –
Looks like a small plastic spool. Would a Lowe's have something like that? Could you make something?

Hmmm, I wonder if a woodworker with a small lathe could turn out (pun intended) some in walnut, oak, pecan, and whatever other woods have been used?

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Reply #2 –
Check out a fabrics store like Jo Ann Fabrics. Just the other day I saw a whole display of clear plastic bobbins and commented to the DW that those look like the ones we had in our GV holding the curtain cords.
Nitehawk,  Demolition Lady, & our NEW master, Zippy the speeding BB cat.
1989 Grand Villa 36' ORED
Oshkosh chassis, 8.2 DD V8
2006 Saturn Vue AWD

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Reply #3 –
Hi Peter,
  Is this what you are looking for? Just google rv day night shade parts. Fixmyblinds.com had this, and other parts.
Raymond
Raymond & Babette Jordan
1997 U 320
1998 Ford Explorer XLT

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Reply #4 –
That's it, Raymond. Thanks.
Peter & Beth Martin
No Forrest? What have you done?
MC# 15890 until Dec 2016; FMCA #F329677
Cincinnati, OH

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Reply #5 –

Quote from: Peter & Beth –
.........................can someone help with the sourcing for one of these little tiny reels?...................................
Peter.
Before we changed out to MCD shades, we discovered that a long lasting, trouble free option is to use metal sewing machine bobbins.  They are available in any Jo Ann's, or similar, cloth and sewing supplies store.  They don't have  the breakage issues that the plastic ones do.
See:
Day/Night blinds
Neal
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Reply #6 –
I have purchased restringing kits at Camping World that include those.
Steve & Ginny Hill
96 U295 36'/Wrangler
Tampa

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Reply #7 –
When this reel broke yesterday, Beth suggested a sewing machine bobbin.  Now I'm convinced.  I didn't know how big those were.  Thanks Neal for the confirmation!
Peter & Beth Martin
No Forrest? What have you done?
MC# 15890 until Dec 2016; FMCA #F329677
Cincinnati, OH
 

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Reply #8 –
We now have MCD shades which are more secure than our original pleated shades and don't ever need periodic restring. But when we did our many restringing's we made layouts for each type of shade and also attached is the correct string to use and where we purchased it at.