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Topic ClosedR-Domes - Event Date: 29 May 2017
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    Posted: 21 Jun 2017 at 10:07pm
As soon as this arrives, you can have my 178 RDome! Big enough for billiard table, lap pool and wet bar! Yeah, we're camping now! Big smile
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I'm taking the rPod, rDome, & my sister & 2 dogs(small) on our first trip 6-29 to 7-3...wish us loads of luck....
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Found a used RDome. Yea. Now to use it for the first time. These tips are so useful. Thx all.
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I had the same issue. Very difficult to pull through, hanging on the screws holding the track to the rpod and then coming completely out of the track as if the open of the track was too wide. While I didn't replace the screws with flat head screws(GREAT IDEA), I pinched the track about every 12" and applied silicon to the inside of the track. Now it is sooo simple to install the R-Dome. I do occasionally hang on the track screws, but outward force at the point of the screw solves that problem.

I have noticed each time I install the R-Dome, that the track scrapes off slivers of the plastic from the piece that goes into the track. So, yesterday, I took a file to both ends of the rack and smoothed so it wasn't so rough.
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An update on the rDome..I went hunting around this forum and found a smart guy that actually did what I thought of doing...da..change out the screws in the rail..flathead stainless..I did so as well and everything is going on smooth as silk..
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Here is what I did, I used 2 battery operated drills and put a Phillips bit in one and a drill bit to enlarge the tapered hole. First removed the screw with the phillips then used to other drill with a small bit to enlarge the tapered hole until the screw goes in almost flush, goes fast


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Have only been here 3 months. Lived in NC for 30 years before coming to K'ville to be with family and retire. I don' t like I-40 running right through everything. And no downtown out here in Farragut/suburbia on the West side of Knoxville. But I have barely begun to have time to get out and about. Especially with finding a tow car and then the Pod. There seems to be a lot of things to do, though, and quite a bit of outdoor related activity.  Housing is inexpensive, but sales taxes for cars, campers, etc. are out of site. Car insurance is high too. No state income taxes. No freezing cold or, to me worse, no constant dreary/cloudiness that MI seems to have. Loved the people and the scenery and the water in western MI. Glad I got to go to high school there. Go GH Buccaneers.     
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Computerfixitguy,  could you please tell me the exact size of the screws so I can fetch some on my way home today,,
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So it was not that hard to switch out the screws....

Thanks soooooo much will try tomorrow to accomplish same...
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Posts: 91 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 May 2017 at 11:16pm
I not only put silicone spray in the track I replaced the screws with flatter ones that don't catch.  RDome goes right in by myself.  Love my R-Dome.
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