HELP! diy project gone bad
Hi, Im new to this forum. I just inherited a 2006 damon challenger motorhome from my dad. I have been working to make it my own. But my biggest project so far has gone bad and I need help. I r...
Forum Discussion
Hi and welcome to the forum! I asked the same question here before I took the carpet out of our trailer and replaced with vinyl plank...as you now also know, RV manufacturers use the carpet as a cushion for the slide in many RVs.
In our Terry travel trailer, we had a 13' slide that didn't run on rollers, the factory used small blocks of High Density PolyEthylene (HDPE) under the side edges of the slide and next to the outside wall. As the slide came in, the edges of the platform would ride on these blocks, so they acted like rollers.
It worked great until we had some water damage in the corner and the block sunk into the flakeboard floor letting it drop and in the process letting the slide dig a nice groove in the floor.
I cut some new blocks from a piece of HDPE I got here at Interstate Plastics and was able to raise the slide up again.
I mention this because you may not be able to get underneath the slide and cut the recesses for rollers without removing the slide. You might be able to slide a pair of HDPE blocks under each corner and let the slide ride on those. Even if you only had 1/4" you could slip something in there.
In our Terry travel trailer, we had a 13' slide that didn't run on rollers, the factory used small blocks of High Density PolyEthylene (HDPE) under the side edges of the slide and next to the outside wall. As the slide came in, the edges of the platform would ride on these blocks, so they acted like rollers.
It worked great until we had some water damage in the corner and the block sunk into the flakeboard floor letting it drop and in the process letting the slide dig a nice groove in the floor.
I cut some new blocks from a piece of HDPE I got here at Interstate Plastics and was able to raise the slide up again.
I mention this because you may not be able to get underneath the slide and cut the recesses for rollers without removing the slide. You might be able to slide a pair of HDPE blocks under each corner and let the slide ride on those. Even if you only had 1/4" you could slip something in there.
