ceemike,
Been there, done that with the Schwintek Slides, we've had both good and bad experiences. April '13 we bought a new unit that I dumped after fighting the slide problem and it had been in the shop for 4 1/2 months of the five months I'd owned it. Keeping the fingers crossed, I traded it for a 2014 Itasca Sunstar 35F and have had no problems with the slides in the eight months I've owned it. After the prior disaster I'm quite pleased with Itasca. A couple of things I have learned in the process is first and foremost, make sure your unit is level before you move the slides, make sure you are clear to move the slide and don't stop in the middle of opening unless it's an emergency and don't over load the storage bins above the couch and table with a lot of heavy items. Since we got the larger refrigerator we store can good under the couch in Wally World Sterilite 7.5L plastic bins. Any time we are moving the that slide, we move the bins into to passage way to keep that weight off the slide. Just an added note on edit, the first unit that I had problems with on the slides was not a Winnebago/Itasca product.