Rough Seat Slide

[mathineer]

In the middle of a rowing session today, my seat started making a sound, and developed a rough feel. It seems like there is a problem with one of the rollers, and each time it rotates it has a flat spot or a problem with the ball bearings, or someting like that. It was fine, and then got rough all of a sudden. I turned it over, and could not see any obvious problem. I continued the workout, but I can feel it through the seat, and am concerned it will fail, so I'd like to get the neccessary replacement parts (it may still be under warranty, as it was purchased in June of this year). Anyway, I looked under the maintenance section, and it looks like I need to get the upper and lower rollers.

Has anyone else had a similar problem? If so, did it ultimately fail, and how did you fix it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Carl Watts]

If you have not done so already make sure the slide is spotless with the aid of a damp cloth.

You only need the smallest bit of stuff on one of the rollers and it suddenly feels like your going "cross country", this was experienced just recently in a bizare fashion when a bit of skin came off my blister on my hand and stuck to one of the rollers !

put the damp cloth over your finger, rest it on the rollers and go back and fourth untill the black stuff is gone.

Failing this you have a bearing problem, which would be rare in a near new machine. the bearing is a low cost and very common bearing but I replaced all of mine with R6LL (others include R6RS and R6Z for the plain sheilded version that you have fitted already) which is a 2 rubber sheilded version. Replacement is something you can quite easily do yourself, the bearings are not a tight fit in the rollers. As long as the rollers themselves are okay, just replace the bearing(s).

[mathineer]

Carl,

Thank you for the reply. You were absolutely correct. It was gunk on the roller. Thanks again!