Drawers in a Travel Trailer
What are your reccomedations for securing drawers while in route. They alwasy slide out and velcro does not hold them.
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Some trailers are simply worse than others for drawers opening in transit. Just depends on a number of factors. We have a couple that are mounted in a left-right orientation that open once in a while. (Haven't dealt with them yet.) The ones in our rear kitchen facing fore-aft never open, but I would have expected them to over the left-right ones.
Other suggestions:
If you have the standard roller catches (as in photo), check to see that they are properly aligned. Just went through a friend's 1.5 yr old Keystone TT and every single roller catch was misaligned or bent. TERRIBLE factory workmanship. One had the pieces 1" apart and didn't work at all. Also make sure drawer slides are aligned and drawers aren't c*ck-eyed, esp. on wide drawers.
Adding a 2nd roller catch may be all that's needed. These things are really inexpensive and available everywhere including hardware stores.
For the ultimate solution, ditch the drawer slides that come standard in RVs and replace them with Nape & Vogt RV 8400 series stay-close slides. I've installed them and they are EXCELLENT. They work like a soft-close one in a house except to open, you have to give them a tug. You'll never have a drawer open again. Link: K&N RV drawer slides
ps: just noticed RV.net won't allow c*ck-eyed to be spelled out in full, even though it's a legit. word. :S
Other suggestions:
If you have the standard roller catches (as in photo), check to see that they are properly aligned. Just went through a friend's 1.5 yr old Keystone TT and every single roller catch was misaligned or bent. TERRIBLE factory workmanship. One had the pieces 1" apart and didn't work at all. Also make sure drawer slides are aligned and drawers aren't c*ck-eyed, esp. on wide drawers.
Adding a 2nd roller catch may be all that's needed. These things are really inexpensive and available everywhere including hardware stores.
For the ultimate solution, ditch the drawer slides that come standard in RVs and replace them with Nape & Vogt RV 8400 series stay-close slides. I've installed them and they are EXCELLENT. They work like a soft-close one in a house except to open, you have to give them a tug. You'll never have a drawer open again. Link: K&N RV drawer slides
ps: just noticed RV.net won't allow c*ck-eyed to be spelled out in full, even though it's a legit. word. :S
