Camco Gray RV Party Light Holder - Easily Slides Into Awning Roller Bar Channel, Each Hanger Supports Up to 15 lbs - 7 Pack (42693)

Bought one set of these a while back for my camper and recently started using them. These are easy to slide into the awning roller track taking a minute or so to slide in the whole set! Worked great, no problems at all. Pros: easy to install different size thickness on each end allowing for two different fits S hooks install easily and stay in place, do not fall out S hooks are removable for easier storage Cons: Length of product or S hook needs to be longer, lights are hidden behind curvy/decorative flap of awning therefore are not seen from the outside and blocking light projection forward

This are a life changing sort of product for me. I am glad someone invented something to go in the groove of the awning track this way. I use nylon shade cloths in conjunction with my awning. There was a gap because I didn't have anything like this product. I know they say only hang lights, but it held my canopy sides, with the hook and loop strap wrapped around the middle grey part. They keep the shade cloth tight against the awning and prevent that afternoon gap in my sun protection. I have also strung the party lights on them and they work well for that purpose. I was worried I would need more than one kit, but 7 hooks is great. I use only 5 with the shade cloths. I recommend this product. Durable also. I accidentally left them in the groove (without the hooks) more than once and they are fine.

I swear, we bought so many different clips and straps to hang our string lights on the awning of our camper. I felt so bad for my husband who struggled every time we went camping. The clips would fail or weren't strong enough. Then, he found these!! We just got back from a trip to the river and these slide hooks deserve an award as far as I am concerned. Hubby had the lights up in no time after he quickly installed the slide hooks and we even rolled our awning back up with them attached. We celebrated our purchase with ice cold beers. Buy this product!!

It is truly designed to fit in your RV awning, easy to put in and remove. I am using them to hold a Target outdoor set of lights and works wonders. I had one storm coming out of nowhere and I had to take off the lights and lightholders in seconds to roll in the awning as we got caught by surprised by this out of nowhere thurderstorm. I was able to accomplish the task within minutes because I was able to retrieve these lightholders easily. I watched other RV owners having to struggle a little more to get their lights off to roll in their awnings. That is when I realized I had purchased a good product to keep things simple for me...

Great product, purchased many times and will continue to do so

WORK GREAT GREAT PRICE 5 STARS

I used these to hang a mesh sunshade tarp from our RV awning, and they were so easy to use! I bought two packs to hang a 16' tarp from a 16' awning and had 4 hooks left over. The hooks are large enough to still hang an outdoor string of lights, and I believe the awning would roll up if we removed the hooks from the rubber holders without having to remove the holders first--easy enough to do. The rubber hook holders have bar-type ends that are a different size at each end, and each end can hold a hook. That's so you can choose the side that best fits your awning channel. These use the same channel or groove that your awning's pull cord/ribbon uses, so you can leave your ribbon at one end of your awning (like we did), or leave it hanging from the middle of your awning, but you'll have to figure out where you want it before sliding these into place. They're much easier to use than I thought they would be. We created an inexpensive sunroom in front of our RV by clamping white poly tarps to the metal arms on each side of the awning, then using these hooks to hang the sunshade tarp in front. We added an RV mat that was the same size as the awning, and we'll be making a DIY skirt out of two heavy white shower curtain liners attached with velcro strips. It should help keep things cooler this summer, and it gives us a cozy outdoor room to sit in and enjoy nature in the cold weather.

I bought these with the intention of hanging a 6x12 shade cloth tarp with grommets from the canopy channel of a 1953 Airstream. Of course, they're billed as "party light holder," so I wold fault them if they weren't perfect for canopies, but I think they'll be good. 1953 Airstreams have a 1/4" channel. This product has two ends with different sized inserts. I find the larger end is barely large enough to stay in the 1/4" channel. Of course, it's not the size of the channel so much but the size of the slot that matters here, if it is to stay in. It's a close thing, because I had one of them right at the very end of the channel, and it came out because the channel was worn or flared at the end, and the product could get started oozing out. But when not given a chance to start coming out, it seems to stay in okay. I like them because the slide easily in the channel. I am tall enough to put them in and move them around while standing. I measure the diameter of the large end as close to 7/32" and the small end to be about 3/16". In my case, 1/32" is the difference between staying and and slipping out. The rubber body between the ends if 3/32" thick, so if you have that size slot or larger, you can get it in, which I'm sure every channel will have. I haven't had it long enough to know, but I suspect this is probably not the product for something that will be left permanently in the sun. I could be wrong, but living in Central Texas, it doesn't feel like the kind of material to survive. But it will be fine for occasional weekend use.