the problems I see with bringing it straight out instead of forward...under the slide
the bottom side of the slide is not sealed, not even close, so I'd imagine it would increase the odds of leaking a bit
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the other thing....now that I'm thinking of it isn't such a huge problem as I'd originally thought when I considered it a few years ago...is that the pipe would be under the slide so the genturi wouldn't work, if you chose to try one.... except that maybe it wouldn't be so hard to just add a straight extension out to the outside when using it
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