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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While not common nor to be expected it is not that an uncommon for support under slideout to fail.
Various reasons, but a square hole in anything is inherently weak. Campers also rely on the entire assembly for strength. If the siding fails whether rot of wood, simple delamination, the frame has to withstand any tweaking forces- and obvious most are not up to the task.
Another is the sagging of the support underneath. It doesn't stretch. If yours is sagging you should address. Just alot of force and stress already on corners-add a member that is trying to pull away, its going to fail.
As to the OP, not seeing picture of the corner before branch fell on it, couldn't guess. But slide deployed and extra downward force applied to that corner 'could' have broken weld. Or weld could have already been broke and branch cracked filon which simply didn't show till later.
1st picture showing amount of corrosion and wood degradation hard to believe happened over 1 winter? The branch while small, enough weight to break at base, swinging down in arc likely struck with pretty could force & momentum. I wouldn't want to have been under. Enough force to break weld?
Normal wear & tear? Properly functioning slide out, going in and out all day long should not cause weld or structure to fail. In reality not that simple though, binding, racking of structure, just going down the road, surprised more don't fail.
Ours failed, beam was sagging, one end of beam had been broke for a while, the other end finally broke and I thought slide was going to fall out. I have no corrosion or rot- welds simply broke.
Various reasons, but a square hole in anything is inherently weak. Campers also rely on the entire assembly for strength. If the siding fails whether rot of wood, simple delamination, the frame has to withstand any tweaking forces- and obvious most are not up to the task.
Another is the sagging of the support underneath. It doesn't stretch. If yours is sagging you should address. Just alot of force and stress already on corners-add a member that is trying to pull away, its going to fail.
As to the OP, not seeing picture of the corner before branch fell on it, couldn't guess. But slide deployed and extra downward force applied to that corner 'could' have broken weld. Or weld could have already been broke and branch cracked filon which simply didn't show till later.
1st picture showing amount of corrosion and wood degradation hard to believe happened over 1 winter? The branch while small, enough weight to break at base, swinging down in arc likely struck with pretty could force & momentum. I wouldn't want to have been under. Enough force to break weld?
Normal wear & tear? Properly functioning slide out, going in and out all day long should not cause weld or structure to fail. In reality not that simple though, binding, racking of structure, just going down the road, surprised more don't fail.
Ours failed, beam was sagging, one end of beam had been broke for a while, the other end finally broke and I thought slide was going to fall out. I have no corrosion or rot- welds simply broke.
