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[Judge]

Originally Posted by RACarvalho

Judge,

what exactly is happening with the rollers?

are they simply failing (plastic roller cracking, etc) or the rollers are sinking into the floor?

There are two adjustable rollers on the Thor full-wall slides.... one in the front of the slide and one in the back. The plastic roller is connected to a two-piece metal housing that is moveable around a hinge so the roller can be adjusted as necessary.



The hinge is nothing more than one small pin / pivot point on each end of the metal housing. The slides are so big and heavy that the metal housing pulls away from the pin / pivot point and it collapses. Then the roller can't spin and it drags under the slide floor.



On the surface it looks like the metal is strong but when you see the pivot point, it is obvious (to me at least) that the heavy weight of the slide and the movement back and forth would cause the metal to begin to spread and come off the pins and allow the roller assembly to collapse.

If there was a metal rod through the entire assembly acting as a true hinge, then I think the roller assembly might hold up better.