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LarryNCarolynShirk:
Just a thought.  Maybe a stud finder would help locate the mounting pads.

Larry

Edward Buker:
Thought I would chime in having just been through this. Christianson did a nice job building me a half ladder which was my preference. Geralds dimensions are excellent on the diagram he provided (thanks again) but one item to be careful of is that you will have to cut the upper stanchions to length and that sets the distance off of the back of the coach. This also dictates to a great extent the depth of the roof pads onto the roof. Where Geralds are located on his diagram must be at the edge of the roof backing plate. I missed that plate with the 4 most rearward screws on the mounts. It is not a major problem given this mount has plenty of strength with the 4 screws through the backing plate and the glass is thick here. The ladder is somewhat flexible and I would be sure and have the roof ladder mounting plate at least to Gerald's dimensions, or perhaps another 1/2" toward the front of the coach. I had my ladder built closer to the coach and lower off the roof than the original.

Finding the "landing pads" is a bit tricky, I missed them several times because of the smooth fiberglass job run over the backside. I was also looking on the passenger side and was unaware until I saw photos of Geralds that they were also mounted on the drivers side. Like Geralds mine were on the drivers side.  I was not able to find the landing pads with a stud finder or a metal detector. Too many false readings from metal etc. to be sure.

wsmiles@gte.net was the email address for the ladder folks. I worked with Bill to get this one done. Hope this helps....Regards Ed

Phil Sales:
Ed, You don't by any chance have the Christianson Part number for your ladder do you? May help me a lot. Thanks Phil Sales

Edward Buker:
Phil,

I had my ladder "custom" built and there is no PN for it seeing Monaco never offered a half ladder. I worked with Ron at Christainsons who is 'the ladder guy". The ladder that Christianson built for Monaco was PN 21601719 and is referenced in one of the photos above. They have the bending jig for that ladder if you want the full length version. I had sent them Gerald's diagram and had them do a half ladder version of his. I did not know if the PN 21601719, that was a mid 2002 through 2003 ladder, would fit an earlier coach and nobody at Monaco could tell me the dimensions of that ladder and what if anything was changed from the Topline 2000 through mid 2002 ladder.

It appears that the way they do ladders in this industry, is that the vendor gets some coach info, builds one, then they send it to Monaco and modify the form if they need to and then they go with it. There does not seem to be drawings for these kinds of things. My belief is that this was a cost driven move and that the Christainson full length ladder would fit but I was not sure.

I'm very happy with the half version and carry a folding 6ft ladder with me to make the transition if I need to go on the roof. My order was recent enough that Ron should have what he needs to build another or you could have him verify the PN 21601719 mounting points are similar to Gerald's diagram and go with that. Either way they should be able to fix you up. If there was enough interest in a half ladder version they would probably build a jig and this would become quite easy. Hope this helps.

Regards Ed

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