weld broken on the slide - common??
We seem to have a broken weld on our slide. This is a 2005 Host Rainier 9.5 I want to know how common it is for a weld in the slide to break from "normal wear and tear". We found a crack coming f...
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wnjj, I'm not sure what search you are doing. If you are finding a handful of posts of different brands, I'm still not calling it "common".
This thread has generated two examples including one very old Fleetwood that uses an entirely different structure, and a longer Host that was heavily used including one episode of hitting a tree if I remember right. I'm not saying the tree is related. Ok, that it was heavily used, but extra unsupported length would be significant.
Still, there is no way to tell if any damaged slide or structure was heavily loaded or not or operated unlevel, or unsupported. Anything can break, for sure, but a handful of cases of damage caused by unknown causes isn't "common".
It seems to me that a limb hitting the top of the outside edge of the slide would be significant force. How much force should it take to break? Who knows?
This thread has generated two examples including one very old Fleetwood that uses an entirely different structure, and a longer Host that was heavily used including one episode of hitting a tree if I remember right. I'm not saying the tree is related. Ok, that it was heavily used, but extra unsupported length would be significant.
Still, there is no way to tell if any damaged slide or structure was heavily loaded or not or operated unlevel, or unsupported. Anything can break, for sure, but a handful of cases of damage caused by unknown causes isn't "common".
It seems to me that a limb hitting the top of the outside edge of the slide would be significant force. How much force should it take to break? Who knows?
