bka0721 wrote:
What are you using for keeping the sliding doors in place and locked from opening? Sliders "rack" unless the spring tensioner is set tight, but that inhibits sliding, but set at a medium and then bouncing over bumps n' things might skip the track. Like on a ski lift these applications have a roller on top and bottom of the top track. Is this what you have done?
Also, with work of this quality, you must be already thinking of the next project. Any hints?
b
Hey, yes, good call there on the sliding doors...I knew I couldn't get anything past you! We do have spring tensioners in the top which go up into the groove and make the door impossible to bounce out (you have to compress them quite a bit to remove the door). I have some semi complicated mechanism in mind for locking the door position on the track but haven't built it yet, so right now they are free to slide back and forth. I adjusted the friction fairly tight for now and they don't slide during normal driving but I will be adding the lock mechanisms before we start our travels.
Next project...hmmm, let us finish this one first! :-)
I didn't say anything about a hydrofoil amphibious camper...
