Manual crank for slideout

[Exnavydiver]

When I helped wisterdog get his slides in the other day I used my 18 volt DeWalt drill. I started on high speed and the slide went in pretty slow but the drill started to die rapidly. So I shifted it into low speed mode and it got even slower but it extended the battery life considerably. Even so it still took 3 batteries to finish the job. I think that isolating one slide at a time works the best.

[CamillaMichael]

quote:Originally posted by Exnavydiver

When I helped wisterdog get his slides in the other day I used my 18 volt DeWalt drill. I started on high speed and the slide went in pretty slow but the drill started to die rapidly. So I shifted it into low speed mode and it got even slower but it extended the battery life considerably. Even so it still took 3 batteries to finish the job. I think that isolating one slide at a time works the best.

Attempting to "select" one slide has not worked too well for me...tried once and strange things seemed to happen...for example, the slides I had "turned off" seemed to start moving while the one I had selected did not move! Then when I tried to run the other slides back in they seemed to have decided to stay in place. Only after I selected all of the slides to move did I finally get them to do what I wanted them to do. No more individual selections for me!

[Exnavydiver]

If you have the half turn valves you MUST turn them all the way to the stops. If they are open even a tiny bit the slides will move. I found out that situation when I installed the new half turn manifold after removing the pin valve manifold.