This is how you get your real exercise… climb the ladder a hundred times. Today I spent the day replacing the slide toppers on the driver side of the RV. The big one had developed a duct tape repair issues so I ordered new material and today was the day to replace it. The videos on YouTube say they did one in 20 minutes… ha! experienced people with an easier situation. I had to go to the standard method as the hex bars were not all screwed. They had pop rivets in the ends? I didn’t want to fiddle with drilling out, and then the issue of twisting off the self tapping screw. (Note: I tested one spot to see if I could get a new self tapping into the hex bar. I drilled the proper hole, and put the screw in and poof before I got 3 good turns it twisted off… far enough out that I could vice-grip the piece and get that out so I elected to do the standard method of slide out… tug and pull… tug and pull and up and down the ladder over 100 times… including getting on the RV roof and off and on and off as well as the ladders. but after about 5 hours we got both replaced. the tops of the slides cleaned off, and lubed the seals..
The old big slide topper with the duct tape problem. it had started separating before our last trip and I had put a temp hold with duct tape on it… it lasted 200 miles but was fast loosing ground…
The top is off. also note I may need to replace my small camera. It sometimes will not open up all the way and I do not notice till … later.
Yea, I scrubbed it but didn’t use Bon-ami… much better than before anyway.
Now both toppers replaced… lined up… rolled in and out several times and locked in place. amazed I could get it done in less than a day but boy I am wore out form the up and down…
I also put on a bicycle carrier mounted to the ladder, and did get the bicycles on it. Glad it is a temp solution that will likely be permanent as I had to take the front wheels off both to keep them inside the width.
I also found a few left over pictures that need to be shown. Anyone need a Orange Ladies hat?
Saw that in Wichita at Hat man Jacks… as you can see they also have Red and Green… I bought a Tilley there… like it but wish I had the bigger brim one.
Hey!.. is that chocolate cake over there? Yes I said “all done” but that was only if you were going to keep feeding me pasta… Cake is different!
I am tired and even had to cook dinner… should have pictured that but it was chicken breast, split, then mixed up some cream cheese with fiesta mix cheese and plugged that into some jalapeno’s… then stuffed the pepper with cheese into the chicken breast then wrapped bacon on the outside. It was good but should have done a little more season to the chicken first To hungry to worry about pictures… next time.
WD0AJG