Are slideout lock bars important?
I have a 2005 Holiday Rambler Ambassador. Each of the front slideouts has an adjustable bar to be placed between the wall and one corner of the slideout trim so the slide won't move to the out positi...
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The slide is only controlled by the gear or hydraulics at the bottom. When closed the mechanism is the only thing holding it there and then only by the slide floor. Bumpy roads, etc put a lot of stress the whole assembly, the locking poles are there to keep the top of the slide in tight so it doesn't want to lean out and stress the mechanism at the bottom.
As was noted so you can put red tape on the poles like aircraft safety flags, or put a note by the slide switch. If you look on an aircraft they have a bright orange ribbon that gets snapped diagonally across the window in the door. They do this when the emergency slide is engaged, so somebody on ramp service won't open the door from the outside any deploy the inflatable slide.
As was noted so you can put red tape on the poles like aircraft safety flags, or put a note by the slide switch. If you look on an aircraft they have a bright orange ribbon that gets snapped diagonally across the window in the door. They do this when the emergency slide is engaged, so somebody on ramp service won't open the door from the outside any deploy the inflatable slide.
