Professional repairs
Just for fun. I had my slide seal repaired. A few times. Sometimes you just need it done correctly and professionally. Can you guess which repair was done by me and which repair was done by a profes...
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dougrainer wrote:
I think the OP is mistaken. I would NEVER call most of the people that work at a CW in Service, Professional or Experts. You get what you pay or go to. Doug
PS, THAT type seal can NEVER be reinstalled. Once the metal fingers have pulled loose like the pic, it will never lock on the metal track again.
There is no metal fingers to lock into. It's simple flat surface held in place with 3m tape. The key is to removing ALL the old gasket, which is also the hardest part.
The 2nd problem is that they did not use the correct seal. The correct part is a triangle seal, so when the slide open all the way and drops down the triangle point is the only thing that moves. They used a bulb seal and when the slide drops down the whole seal moves and pulled loose. The 3rd problem is the correct seal actually sits on top of lip and because of the correct parts size you have no option other then install it straight and it then has support. Their roller coaster install was because of their incompetence of using the wrong part. There is no substitute for using the CORRECT parts, rather then some
