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Originally Posted by RACarvalho
Is it not squared because the aluminum wall studs where welded not square or because the guy with the router did a lousy job?
In my case, when they went to change the full wall slide mechanism under warranty and took the slide out "out" , the dealer found that hole in the wall as not cut right and so they had to trim the fiberglass/luan in order to have the opening properly square....
If that is the case, the wall should be fixed and not chims added....
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Thor plant 750 no longer uses a pattern and a hand router to cut holes in the walls and side skirts (basement). Plant 750 now uses a CNC router table where the wall/skirt is laser aligned. Since the outer slide wall is the same panel cut from the coach's wall, measuring the diagonals will tell if the computer program made a mistake.
That doesn't prove the slide room is square. In plant 750 most living-room slide's sides, top and bottom are cut from the same panel on the router table, so they should be square. The room's assembly is where the problem lies. The room is assemble in a jig before it is bonded. The floor workers use cargo straps to pull it into square, then bond it to the outer wall. Hopefully it remains square on today's roads.
Entegra REDs install the slides without the outer wall. The floor worker then use adjustable spacers to align the coach's wall gaps with the slide's wall and top, so the gaps are the same even if the room is not square. Entrgra uses an electric in-floor slide system, so the floor of the slide is always parallel to the coach's frame and floor. Only when the slide fits perfectly in the opening is the outer wall bonded to the slide room. Since this takes a long time, there are five stations on the production line devoted just to assembling the 4 slide rooms on most coaches. The slides are installed with the coach on air, so Entegra state no slides are to be moved unless the engine is running and the coach is on air and not jacks
Factory visits are informative.
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