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12-06-2014, 09:31 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Livingston
Posts: 1,150
M.O.C. #12333
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Reinforced Closet Rod
Well after seeing how the "heavy duty" closet hanger rod was probably not going to make any significant road trip I decided to add a continuous aluminum tube with side angle supports which would be independently anchored to the walls and ceiling and then fasten the hanger to the tube.
We did a good trip with 3000 miles round trip to Savannah a few weeks ago and so far so good.
Here are the pics.
http://s962.photobucket.com/user/myb...d%20Reinfocing
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12-06-2014, 10:01 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: K.C.
Posts: 11,731
M.O.C. #5980
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Nice job Les, the way they should come out of the factory.
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12-06-2014, 10:13 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Washington Coast
Posts: 2,688
M.O.C. #10696
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Yep good job, we have our closet racks FULL(DEAR WIFE OF COURSE) to the max and they have not fallen down yet but we have not taken a 3K trip but I am going to do just like you did just in case
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12-06-2014, 10:44 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: North Ridgeville
Posts: 20,229
M.O.C. #2839
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We used plumbers pipe and a 2x4 to re enforce after the OEM rod collapsed on our 06 3400.This one on the 13 3402 seems to be sturdier.
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12-06-2014, 12:07 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Grand Rapids
Posts: 1,896
M.O.C. #9561
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I can complain about lots of things on my montana but we've never had an issue with the closet hanger. believe me we have a ton of stuff on it and never an issue. montana did fine with their design.
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12-06-2014, 03:20 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Lake Gaston
Posts: 8,773
M.O.C. #12156
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Pretty solid!
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2002 3655 FL, 2005 3650RK
2010 3665RE, 2015 3910FB
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12-06-2014, 05:10 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Frostproof, FL USA
Posts: 2,362
M.O.C. #13272
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Ours was fine on the first run of 1200 plus miles. A month later at the beginning of a 7,000 miles trip it buckled/bent. I had to do a similar modification except I used stained oak with two center supports that come down and anchored onto the sides of the middle closet clothes hamper. Now I have solid full size residential wood clothes rods to hang our clothes on.
The factory design using little 1" screws to hold the cheap thin metal rod onto the ceiling material in newer models is a horrible design. They will all fail sooner or later.
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12-06-2014, 06:05 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Wilsey
Posts: 18,799
M.O.C. #11455
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Looks great. We had to replace ours after the first trip out.
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12-22-2014, 05:44 AM
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Established Member
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Bellevue
Posts: 15
M.O.C. #15820
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Came lose in the center on our 2012. Will be rebuilding it.
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