slide out stabilizers
Does anyone use a stabilzer under the slide out when extended? Just wondering if this is something else I should buy. My slide is large and has the table and sofa so there is weight on it when in use....
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jaycocreek wrote:Maybe instead of posting an argumentative post you can consider the reasons posted then show, through your actual experience, where these fears might be unfounded. That would be positive.
Gotcha..... The reason and the only reason a slide cannot move is if the trailer frame is supported fully. Those that have, if they have, had problems and damaged there slide using stabilizers did not have the trailer frame supported properly or they were using electric stabilizers instead of screw jacks rated for the job.
I used to set up mobile homes, same principal. I-Beam frame and blocks and some with expandos. In this case the 4 screw jacks I have are rated over 24,000 lbs all together and more than capable of holding the trailer frame up without tires or axles without movement there for the slide cannot move up or down as long as the frame is supported.
Jaycocreek, just a thought and to set the record I have never owned anything with a slideout, don't have a dog in this fight, and have no opinion of whether to use slideouts or not.
I get what you are saying about how a properly supported trailer with the screw jacks down should not move and therefore should not affect slideout supports. But I've also read multiple postings on this forum where long trailers with the jacks properly down have a lot of bounce as people move around inside. This is caused by the frame flexing, the leaf springs flexing, and the tires flexing.
I imagine that without supports the slideout will move as one with the frame flex.I'm assuming no bounce as the flex is a slow up and down motion and not a sharp bounce as if a platoon of Marines were doing jumping jacks in the trailer.
With a slideout support the frame will flex, but the slide will stay put. It seems like this will cause a lot of stress on the rollers and mechanism that is extended like a lever out of the side of the trailer.
I wonder if the manufacturers recommendations not to use supports are because they have had issues with the mounting points between the slide and the RV becoming elongated and weakened.
