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Thunder_Mountai
Explorer II
Nov 25, 2013

Did it... Caught the corner of the slide with my noggin!

Guess this is a right of passage. After over a decade of owning RVs with slides, I caught the corner of the slide with my noggin. Had the slides out getting ready to head south. Didn't turn on the ove...
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nazpaz
Explorer
Nov 26, 2013
TucsonJim wrote:
I can see the noodle for the slide. But what do you use for the FW hitch pin? I have a real knack for trying to lift the FW with my head on the pin.


I did that once and nearly knocked myself out. Makes my head hurt just remembering it.

We have a kinda sorta solution to that one. We have a clothesline hanger (one of those round ones with clothespins on it) that we hang by the hitch. That is a bit easier to spot than the pin.

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