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Jetstreamer
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Oct 09, 2014

Material on the bottom of slide out starting to fray

Underneath my living room slide there is what looks like a black fiberglass woven type of material. I noticed the other day upon some routine inspection that on one end of the slide that woven type ma...
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Paul_Clancy
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Oct 09, 2014
It's Darco fabric. Mine was repaired by a dealer tech using uhmw poly strips (same as what the bar is made of) sealed to the slide bottom with Sikaflex and countersunk screws. Now the slide slides on Uhmw poly against Uhmw poly. It is a known issue across many brands that use the Darco and plastic bar design.

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