Recent content by merlinmurph

UHMW tape? I'll have to remember that. I had a similar issue with my TT slide and solved it with spray PTFE lube. Thanks for the info!

Congrats! Good find. There are numerous issues in these forums where the problem was a bad ground.

The slide works, so I wouldn't waste time on it. It works with shore power and should work with the battery.

I had the same issue as described in this thread. My power jack also would stall. My issue was that the battery connects to some breakers on the trailer frame and all the connections were very corroded. When I replaced the breakers and cleaned the wire connectors, things worked fine. Now, my...

Update to this continuing saga Success! Two parts to this fix. First, the jerky slide seems to be fixed by applying the PTFE spray under the slide and towards the slide bar. This made the slide go smoothly. However, the slide would just stop. The power winch would also stop and has gotten...

I'm impressed! Great job. Been there with two blowouts. One at the beginning of a trip and said to self "Replace all 4 tires when we get back 6 weeks later. Literally, on the last leg of the trip home, another blowout. Immediately replaced them at home with good tires.

Thanks. I might consider rollers sometime.

Ha! Just saw my first one last week. For something that is a common point of failure, this seems to be inviting trouble. Maybe I'm just being cynical.

UPDATE In short: Success! I had to find some PTFE lube and found some WD40 dry PTFE at an auto parts shop. Blaster makes a PTFE lube and ZEP makes one, too, though I couldn't find any place that actually sold the ZEP. I got the slide out a bit, and using the straw sprayer, put the straw under...

Ugh, I have the same thing and it really is indicative how these things are made. I'm going to re-do mine soon and either move the breakers inside somewhere or put a box around them. They look pretty ugly right now. Just recently, I walked around a dealership to see what other trailers had to...

Well, I don't think whatever is underneath the slide (what I called a bar) would be part of the Accu-Slide system. I would think the A-S system consists of the cable system to move the slide - period. I could be wrong. Like I said, my small slide has rollers underneath - they are clearly...

Haven't contacted BAL, yet. I checked out a Keystone RV forum and there are a number of threads about "jerky slide". The slide moves on a bar for the length of the slide and it can cause friction. People have had success by: 1. Put the slide all the way out and clean the bottom 2. Apply a...

I have rollers underneath a small wardrobe slide, but I don't see what is under this large slide. Thanks.

Ahhhh, gotcha. I was picturing the "tracks" you see on some other types of slides. I'll check. We're heading out on Sunday for a 1-week trip, we'll see how it goes. Thanks.

Tracks? Not sure what you mean with a cable slide. The slide slides in something, but it sure isn't tracks.