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Old 04-03-2005, 08:13 PM   #2
wahoonc
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Profile:  1975 31' Sovereign
1980 31' Excella II
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Originally Posted by ravholette
I just bought an 1979 International sovereign 29 foot. the interior cabinet rollers were stuck, I sprayed wd 40 on them and it helped for a few days, now I cant get in at all to even light my pilots to do a test on my appliances, any clues on freeing up the roller compartment system?
Run a board search on "Tambour" or "Tambor". Mine needed to be disassembled and cleaned to be made functional. Sometimes even that won't be enough. Silicone would be a better choice than WD-40. You are dealing with plastic and paperboard pieces the WD will gum them up and possibly detiorate some of the components. I have one that is particularly sticky, I am going to take it back apart and try waxing the slides and the tambour part and see if that helps, if not I will probably build a new tambour or come up with another door solution for that area.

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