Removing pitch from awnings

Removing pitch from awnings

05-17-2003, 04:13 PM

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CPG

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Removing pitch from awnings

There must be a few of you "Happy Campers" out there that might have had this problem. While camping near or under pine trees there is sometimes a problem with pitch from the pine trees dripping on the awning. This is a messy ordeal when this happens. The pine pitch is almost like glue when it dries & certainly not easy to remove. While there might be commercial cleaners out there for this, I am not aware of any. I tried at Camping World with no success. The common cleaners do not work. I finally through experimenting have found that Denatured Alcohol is one antidote for getting this messy stuff off. Some of this unwanted mess has been on my trailers awning now for ten years. Denatured Alcohol did the job. Hope this helps a few out there that have been looking for a solution to this problem.
Happy camping.

Chuck Goode

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