Camper Window Screens for Dummies, Again

Camper window screen

We're always amused to find that two different people have seized on almost identical questions in the eHow.com canon and come up with the exact same (wrong) answer. We have no idea which of these two attempted to answer the question first, but one of them sure looks a lot like the other, at least when it comes to the bogus information. To Charlie Rainer Gaston's version of "How to Replace a Window Screen on a Camper Shell" at Trails.com, we now add the version posted by Tyson Simmons to a brand new Leaf Group niche site, Homesteady.com. Sadly, we can't tell whether one plagiarized the other or the two are equally incompetent...

Like Gaston, Simmons apparently couldn't find any sort of information for replacing the screens in a camper shell. As a result, he (like she) apparently figured that the screens are exactly like those on a house. That would be well and good, except that Tyson (the same as Charlie) thought that the screens would be wood-framed, like an antique wooden storm door. As a result, both of them said something like

"Use a flathead screwdriver to remove the staples holding the window screen on..."

... as their first instruction. The problem? That's not how camper window screens are installed: a window screen that's regularly subjected to rain moving at 70-plus MPH is installed on the inside of a metal-framed window using a rubber spline that you install with a roller.

Oddly, the same as Gaston, Simmons never uses the words "rubber" or "spline." On the other hand, he does instruct his readers to cut out a new piece of screen slightly larger than the opening and then "Place the new screen over the window and staple it to secure it. Make sure to keep the screen taught [sic] the entire time to prevent wrinkles from forming," which is neither grammatically nor practically correct. Once again, dear eHowians, that's not how camper screens are secured... According to the Wayback Machine at archive.org, the version by Simmons was archived a year before the one by Gaston, which may mean that Gaston is not merely a dumbass, she's a plagiarist. Whatever the case, attempting to explain how to do something you've never done and getting it wrong? All we need to name Tyler Simmons our Dumbass of the Day. So there.

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