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I've seen some RVs with jacks under the slide, such as my parents, and while it may work just fine if the main RV does not move, if the RV does happen to have any movement, then the pressure exerts on the slide, and could cause issues...
as for the front electric 'schwintec' rail system bunk... letting it down 'some' is not an issue, the rails and motors don't really care. The only issue is that gravity tends to continue pushing down on the bunk, especially if/when someone puts their weight on it, or while traveling, causing one side or the other to move separately. When you then try to raise or lower it, the rails are then out of sync with each other.
We actually have two sets of rail stops in our tracks, one is the originally 'all the way up to the ceiling' set, of course, and the others I drilled about 16" lower to allow us to use the bunk as 'storage' while traveling, but still leaving plenty of headroom when entering the cockpit area. I use larger 'pins' installed in these new holes, and can easily remove them if I need to move the bunk. None of this makes any difference for the 'working' part of the system - as long as the sides remain somewhat even, it all continues to work just fine - we've never had a problem.
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