I reported
here (LINK) about how my Accuslide recently jammed itself up, how by great luck I managed to reattach the detached cable, and how I was going to replace the missing jam nut when I got back home.
Tonight I took the long fascia off the slide to allow me to work on the cabling.
First off, the jam nut I expected to replace isn't missing. There are no jam nuts that I can find, at least not where I expected to find them (at the end of the cables, resulting in the cable detaching itself on my trip). There are some interesting nuts that are finger loose between the fitting on the end of the chain and the traveling blocks-- I can snug them up to the chain OR to the traveling block, but obviously not both, and I have no idea which is right or why they are there at all.
Second, the image in the maintenance manual shows "cable nut anti vibration locks" (little rubbery cubes) installed on the top and bottom cable of every traveling block. My slide has slightly fewer than half that many installed, with never more than one to a block. Pretty sure they didn't all just fall off.
Third, I have no idea if the purple BTM cable is too tight, too loose, or what, as I reinstalled it by the seat of my pants just to get the slide working again on the road. Furthermore, I don't even know how to determine whether it needs to be tightened, loosened, or left alone.
All that having been said, I set about seeing if I could perhaps correct the downward cant that the slide has had since I bought it. The maintenance manual is opaque -- I assume once you have done the job it all becomes much clearer, but it's not very useful to newbies. I get that I have to loosen one cable before tightening another, but which cables i need to loosen or tighten in order to get the bottom slide edge to extend out farther are impossible for me to fathom. It doesn't even give the basic information about whether you need to loosen/tighten which cable to bring a corner in or out (which way?).
The manual says:
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When the room is seated full out, the OUTSIDE cables should be slack enough to move the cable approximately 1⁄2” up or down (1” total movement) by hand. The holding power is actually on the INSIDE cables pulling the standoff brackets tight against the frame.
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So I checked. Nope, exactly the opposite. When the slide is fully extended (with the bottom not quite touching the wall because of the factory droop), the OUTSIDE cables are dead taut, and the INSIDE cables are more flexible.
I can't understand the manual, and it looks like I can't even trust the manual. I'd like to do this job myself, but I don't believe I ever will if I have to depend on this manual to do it.
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