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DutchmenSport
Oct 12, 2019Explorer
My tip:
Absolutely every time you retract the slides, sweep off their roofs so debrie won't damage the rubber seals and bugs and gunk will not pass under the seals and get inside the camper.
If it has been raining, take the extra few minutes and dry off their roofs right before retracting. This keep a LOT of water out of the inside of the camper that will evaporate and be trapped inside the camper. Dry and clean... every time!
When opening them, double check to make sure no cabinet doors or something else came open, or fell on the floor blocking their pathway and breaking whatever may be in their path. Cabinet doors loose every time!
Me too. I started first on the MorRyde steps, as we have a back door on the opposite side of the camper and bathroom is accessed on that side when slides are in. Lowering the step at rest stops and such, I was concerned about traffic not noticing the steps. So the reflective tape can not hurt get attention that something is protruding, it sure can't hurt.
That led to the reflective tape on each end of each slide. This helps in my own driveway, as I leave for work before sunrise and back around the camper in the dark. That reflective tape helps me see the slides a whole lot easier.




Absolutely every time you retract the slides, sweep off their roofs so debrie won't damage the rubber seals and bugs and gunk will not pass under the seals and get inside the camper.
If it has been raining, take the extra few minutes and dry off their roofs right before retracting. This keep a LOT of water out of the inside of the camper that will evaporate and be trapped inside the camper. Dry and clean... every time!
When opening them, double check to make sure no cabinet doors or something else came open, or fell on the floor blocking their pathway and breaking whatever may be in their path. Cabinet doors loose every time!
Lwiddis wrote:
I put reflective red and white tape on my slide’s three sides....may save some grief.
Me too. I started first on the MorRyde steps, as we have a back door on the opposite side of the camper and bathroom is accessed on that side when slides are in. Lowering the step at rest stops and such, I was concerned about traffic not noticing the steps. So the reflective tape can not hurt get attention that something is protruding, it sure can't hurt.
That led to the reflective tape on each end of each slide. This helps in my own driveway, as I leave for work before sunrise and back around the camper in the dark. That reflective tape helps me see the slides a whole lot easier.




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