Its my fault, really, that the rails got bent. Seems that when we arrived last Thursday afternoon and set up our tent camper, I neglected to ensure the braces for the rear bed extension were put into place. I was getting a little help from the brothers-in-law and I simply failed to follow my own checklist for assembling the camper. Then my sister-in-law, J moved in and that bunk became her bunk for the weekend.
Now, of all the BSU's sisters, J is probably the least svelte of the bunch. And she went to bed Thursday night on a bunk that was only supported by the slider rails... I happened to get up in the early AM to go over to the bathrooms and when I came back to the camper I noticed that her end had a distinct droop that was not part of the original configuration! Yikes! It took only a minute to figure out what the problem was.
Fortunately, morning came shortly and sis-in-law was up and out of bed before the bunk suffered any catastrophic damage. I got the 4 braces installed first thing fter I got up so that no further damage would occur. The slider rails are bent and were binding when it was time to put the camper back into travel configuration on Sunday. I managed to lift on the rails enough to get them to close up, but they aren't right.
This weekend I'll have to open up that end and pull the rails off the camper to see if I can straighten them. If not I'll just have to buy some replacements I suppose. And I'll have to update my mental checklists to add a WARNING box at the point where the braces are installed.
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