Stabilizers
Our Rockwood 2604 came standard with scissors jacks and DH hates them. Our ROO 23SS had what we're calling "long arm" jacks and he loved those. We've looked online until we're blue in the face to fi...
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jaycocreek wrote:
Scissor jacks are much much stronger than the others. The electric stabilizers that came on my trailer bent with ease when the trailer shifted on asphalt and they were just tightened up snug, not to snug.
Each of my bal scissor jacks are rated at 6500lbs each unlike the flimsy stabilizers.
On the other hand these are stabilizers not jacks, the difference being the amount of load applied. Stabilizing just requires 'snugging up'. If they bent then too much load was applied for the designer's intended function. ;)
Also better the stabilizer arm bends than the lightweight trailer frame. It may have actually been designed this way ... to fail sacrificially, although this is RV engineering and I have my doubts.
