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bucky
Explorer II
Apr 27, 2018

Recliner hold down bracket help please.

We recently removed a love seat/"bed" from our 5er to switch to recliners. This is on a slide.
A friend was kind enough to donate his hold downs and hardware from the recliners he removed but his recliners were on the floor not on a slide.
The slide floor is not wood and appears to be metal or some type of composite. I am hesitant to drill into it to mount the brackets. Should I mount the brackets to the slide or go into the wall of the slide on one side and the back of the dinette on the other. Thanks for any input.
  • Agree with the good advice above. Test them first on a trip. You may (probably) will be just fine without using hold downs....ours are.
  • I wouldn't bother to secure them, it's very unlikely they will go anywhere. We had no issues in our last 5th wheel with the recliners moving.
  • I wouldn’t drill through the floor. Think I would just let it sit there. It’s not going any where unless you have an accident and then the movement of a couple of chairs is the least of your problems.

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