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day/night pleated shade ... need advice

My first string finally broke.

This is the shade between the sink and stove in the kitchen, I found three screws, took them out, and the valence came off. Now, how do I get the shade to come off? I see no more screws. There appear to be two brackets behind the headrail, but neither the brackets nor the headrail budge. What's the trick?

Assuming I get it off, how do I restring these shades? All the instructions I can find are for shades you push up or down, but these have two pull cords.
Tom Lang K6PG (originally  KC6UEC)
and Diane Lang
2003 38 U295 build 6209
2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Ecodiesel
still have tow-ready 2006 Acura MDX 
Temple City, California
Motorcade 16681 California Chapter President
SKP 16663 member of SKP Park of the Sierra, Coarsegold California
FMCA F071251
Retired electrical and electronic engineer

Re: day/night pleated shade ... need advice

Reply #1 –
Pull cord shades should be pretty straight forward. Straight up through the pleats and through the locking cam. Never done specifically RV ones, but residential ones, yes. Just have two sets of strings. One terminates at the bottom of the night portion, and the other goes all the way down to the bottom of the day portion. Sounds easy. Probably isn't. Good luck. Let us know how it goes. You will then be the subject matter expert.
Steve & Ginny Hill
96 U295 36'/Wrangler
Tampa

Re: day/night pleated shade ... need advice

Reply #2 –
To remove the shade push a screwdriver between the shade and the window and depress the latch on the bracket.  Shade will pop out. Disassembling the shades is relatively easy.
Steve DeLange
2005 U320T 40'
Pearland, Texas