The Cobra "Ramp Grind" - a fix

On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 10:00:13 PM UTC-4, Michael Opitz wrote:
At 06:38 16 July 2017, bumper wrote:
New "bumper" product announcement:

The ramp sliders on my 2002 Cobra trailer were metal on metal,
bolt
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gouged the extruded aluminum floor rails and there was metal on
metal
wear=
.. Some later trailers have plastic washers, but those don't last or
work
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ll either. I made plastic sliders for my trailer a decade ago. They
worked
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well but the design was not suited for easy consumer installation
and I
bac=
k burnered the idea. That is, until one owner pestered me for 3
years! :c).

The SRS (smooth ramp slider) kit uses a machined one piece slider
of Ultra
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High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMW PE). This material is
almost as
sl=
ippery as Teflon, and when it comes to abrasion resistance, is
better than
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steel for many applications. One inch will stop a .45 ACP round
(though I
h=
ave yet to personally test this particular claim). Installation is easy,
20=
minutes. The ramp moves as smooth as oil on glass.

The SRS kit is available now in limited quantities. I announced it
last
wee=
k on a glider model specific forum and had orders for 16 the first
day -
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I'm concerned with getting swamped (I have 20 kits available now
and will
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make more). Price is $35 plus $4 shipping to USA, $12 shipping to
other
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untries.

(insert my 6 letter "car part" name) @frontier.com for installation
instruc=
tions, questions, and ordering info. Please include "SRS" in the title
of
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our email.


I installed the SRS kit today. It took about an hour due to the 2
carriage stop bolts on the ends of the rails being bent like pretzels
(from the rear of the trailer having occasionally dragged over the
last 18 years). If the bolts had been straight, the whole process
would have taken ~15 minutes to do. Nice smooth gliding action
now. Thanks.
RO

I installed mine yesterday (with help from PG). My bolts were also twisted, but both were exactly the same, so I think they were actually meant to be like that... I also found that you have to push the top of the bolt down while unscrewing the bottom bolt so that the bolt doesn't rotate.Love the silent gliding action of the SRS!!