How to get RGN slideouts unstuck

Also, Tractor Supply sells a graphite paint called EZ Slide.

 

Electrolysis is similar... Think more along the lines of attaching and burying an anode bag with a burried propane tank... Tank is steel, wire is copper, anode is some other metal. The Copper wire gives up an electron easier than the steel tank, and the anode gives up an electron easier than both the tank and the wire. Therefor the anode will corrode completely away before the copper wire and the steel tank.

 

Once they're freed up I'd make a point of pulling them out every weekend as well as washing them out whenever you wash the trailer. Can't seize in if you're moving them often.

 

Pull the pin.

 

Guy that did that at landoll must have transferred to Aspen. Have a brand new 90ton in the yard that broke after picking up it's first load. Specifically those little foot things on the back of the neck.

 

I have a friend that has a TK with those alluminum slide outs in this fleet.

Part of it's probably corrosion. But if you don't use them alot, sand and dirt and crud of all sorts gets caught in the rails and seizes them up.

And like everyone said once you yank them out somehow.... Power wash those pokets real good, then find you something long lasting to lube with that dosent trap dirt.

That what he has to do every once in awhile or they become completely unusable.

 

They're probably not corroded at all, just have sand/road grit in the tracks. I've had luck with plastic dead blow hammers. Smack each side a few times withe the hammer/mallet to dislodge grit and try sliding. Usually it will come out 6-8" and get stuck again. Push back in and repeat process. Slide-outs need to be exercised regularly, even if you don't use them.