Fold down entry step: Length??
We are looking at new fifth wheels, some of which come with the new hinged entry steps that fold up in one piece, into the doorway of the rig, behind the door. We park our rig in a large garage and I ...
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Durb wrote:Granted I've been out of school a lot of years but I'm kind of confused with this statement: "...the length of the side rails would be the sum of the hypotenuse of the run and the rise triangle." I think the length of the side rails would be the hypotenuse with the two legs being the rise and run. But since we don't know either the rise or the run, or the angle AFATG, it's pretty much impossible to know the hypotenuse. Just too many unknown variables.
I've seen these at RV shows and thought they would be great for a full timer, not so much for general use. Keep in mind the length of the side rails would be the sum of the hypotenuse of the run and the rise triangle. The ones I saw looked to be about 4 feet.
An addendum here. These things pivot from the floor not the bottom of the floor joists. The floor on my 5er is at 38" and I have a medium weight unit unlike the the heavy duty rigs I saw them installed on. If the angle of the rails when down is 45 degrees the length of the rail will be the floor height times the square root of 2 (1.414). In my case the rail would be 53". Deduct a couple of inches for the foot design.
