Now, on to the sliding door

We haven't been looking forward to replacing the rollers on the boat's sliding glass door. We took it off earlier in the winter but couldn't figure out how to access the worn-out wheel assemblies in the bottom of the door.

Now it's April and it's time to get it done so we looked at the internet and sure enough, there are dozens of how-to videos on how to do this. It seems that for many doors like ours, you simply tap the bottom of the door and, at least for the guys on the internet, the bottom should come right off.

Frances came up with a really nice rubber hammer and with that, down we went. Amazing. Two or three taps on a piece of wood against the bottom cap of the door and off it came.

With the bottom off, we had access to the two 10-32 bolts that held the wheel assemblies in place. Those bolts gave us a little trouble but with patience, they both came out.

This photo is staged, but you'll get the idea.

The sliding door rests - and hopefully slides - on these wheel assemblies. They were completely frozen and worn out.

Sorry for the blurry photo but we're a one-man film crew.

Having these things in our hand meant we could go to the internet and see if we could find replacement.

Once back at home, we used our advanced knowledge of search engines (not), and typed into Google, "rollers for sliding glass doors". The first site that came up was swisco.com and boy, did they have rollers, with photos and dimensions for each one. Based on our measurements, we ordered these little beauties.
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We threw in a couple of extra bucks to get them this week. Once they get here, we'll see how well they fit and if the do, our sliding door will be ready for summer.