Due to TS Marco I pulled in the slides on my 315RLTS yesterday. To my surprise a "present" was left behind when I went to pull the slides back out. A part of the plastic guide attached to the bottom of the dinette slide caught on something and tore off. There's also minor damage to the floor due to the raw plywood scraping across it. It was fun removing the glue goo deposited on the floor, too. (The floor was meticulously cleaned and inspected prior to slide movement both times--there was nothing foreign on the floor.)
The spot shown in the pictures below is the aft side of the dinette slide. The guide I'll reference is crudely drawn on the floorplan below.
The picture below, looking at the slide from the side (looking forward) is trying to convey how the piece torn off was previously on the slide. The piece originally was part of an assembly that runs from the inside edge of the plywood to the outside edge of the slide on both edges. The purpose appears to be a "slide guide". These guides are screwed on the exterior side and glued to the plywood all the way to the interior.
I'm holding the piece back where it came from below.
I ordered Lippert Slide Out Slickers and will use them in the future.
I really don't know what the slide guide caught on. I inspected under and around the slide with it in and out and could not find anything definitive or even suspicious. I can only speculate the incredibly hot weather recently caused the guide to adhere to the exterior and when the slide was brought in instead of sliding on the guide it ripped. But that's conjecture. Even if true, I don't know how to avoid it.
If anyone has any ideas, opinions, or similar experiences that could explain why this happened I'd like to read it.
I'll follow up when I try the slickers.
Howard
The spot shown in the pictures below is the aft side of the dinette slide. The guide I'll reference is crudely drawn on the floorplan below.
The picture below, looking at the slide from the side (looking forward) is trying to convey how the piece torn off was previously on the slide. The piece originally was part of an assembly that runs from the inside edge of the plywood to the outside edge of the slide on both edges. The purpose appears to be a "slide guide". These guides are screwed on the exterior side and glued to the plywood all the way to the interior.
I'm holding the piece back where it came from below.
I ordered Lippert Slide Out Slickers and will use them in the future.
I really don't know what the slide guide caught on. I inspected under and around the slide with it in and out and could not find anything definitive or even suspicious. I can only speculate the incredibly hot weather recently caused the guide to adhere to the exterior and when the slide was brought in instead of sliding on the guide it ripped. But that's conjecture. Even if true, I don't know how to avoid it.
If anyone has any ideas, opinions, or similar experiences that could explain why this happened I'd like to read it.
I'll follow up when I try the slickers.
Howard
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