I was asked by Richard if I had made these brackets to prevent the top of the slide from leaning to far inward and I said I did not and didn't all Newells have them and of course he said no but not a bad idea. Since then a few people have noticed pictures of them on some other thread and have asked about them, all I can say is they work and it makes it easy for the locking pins to align with the holes. I digitized the bracket and created a DXF file for anyone who wants to take to a waterjet shop and have them cut out of 1/4" aluminum plate or you can buy some plate and cut out with a jig saw like these have been cut.
Well you'll have to email me to get the file, I can't upload it here.
How big is the file and what exact extension and I will add it so you can upload it here
Tom
i added .dxf and 10mb files as ok to upload.
tom
Thanks Tom! Its a small file.
Just a quick heads up. I was all worked up to install these. And then I realized they only work if you DO NOT have slide toppers. A similar idea but mounted on the side at the top, and not in the corner would work with the slide toppers.
forum is not letting it download. looking at why.
tom
all is well with it now. it can be dcownloaded
tom
i sent the file to the guy who has done lots of work for me. he quoted 70 bucks apiece for them. i was surprised it was so high
tom
Tom I would shop around, I would have done all six of them for that price. I imagine four of them would probably be about 50 bucks since they're not having to do any of the drawing it'd be pretty easy to do.
that did count the materials for what that is worth
tom