Broken ladder - repair or replace?
Last summer I had an encounter with a tree and it won, resulting in a broken ladder on my truck camper. The attached pictures show the remaining part of the still attached bottom section and the broke...
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I fixed mine with a steel pipe I had laying around. I slid the steel pipe inside the the broken Al tubes drilled two holes one in each section through the tube and steel pipe then installed SS bolts and nuts. I made an outer sleeve from another section of a broken tubing just to cover the split section. The repair cost nothing but about 2 hrs of my time and is much stronger than the original 3/32 in Al tube. That ladder is an easy target for trees, gutters and large boulders especially if you are backing up alone.
