Slide out lock
I keep seeing advice on different sites and in my information I received with my RV which is a 2004 Four Winds Infinity Class A 31R. It says "Take out safety lock from top of slide before you open sli...
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fordsooperdooty wrote:It happened to me in the 90's with my Fleetwood! We were camping in L.A. CA. I retracted my slide out and the slide roller went over one of those small children's books, which caused the shear pin in the slide to break which caused my slide out to retract all the way out by itself when I was going around a corner in Yosemite National Park. My wife and I were able to pull off the road and push it back in. I cut a piece of 2x4 to fit on top of the slide to stop it from rolling out anymore!
My Jayco 5er came with them. They go on top of the slideout when retracted and lock it in position. Its basically insurance in possible case of the slideout accidently deploying whilst taking a turn or curve on the freeway.
In he 30 years I've been RVing...I've never seen or heard of such an incident happening.
I put a yellow velcro "Caution" sign on the slideout switch to remind me when the braces are locked in place on top of the retracted slide.
The other reason for using the braces is that it snuggs up the slide out to the RV...keepig rain and dust out of the RV while moving...and that does make more sense!
