RV Sizzer Nut Locks
The RV Sizzer Nut locks ready to go
For anyone who has scissor jacks on their travel trailers has had to re-seat those jacks after a day or two will appreciate this week’s RV Gadget Guy tip. As a primary example of “why didn’t I think of that” this week I found the Sizzer Jack Nut Lock device on Amazon.
This very, very simple piece of bent metal goes around the hex nut on your RV scissor jacks and extends into the jack itself preventing the nut from backing down and allowing the jack to raise. It’s delightfully simple yet absolutely serves a need for anybody who has RV scissor jacks.
RV scissor jacks are used to stabilize probably the vast majority of newer travel trailers and are, themselves, a relatively simple device. A nut-driven screw drive lowers the jacks to keep the trailer from wiggling while you walk round inside. It works beautifully well and is such a basic and simple solution to a common problem.
Except that over a few days camping the jacks tend to back out of their lock and raise up which reduces their effectiveness altogether. Enter the RV Sizzer Jack device. It absolutely and simply solves this problem by basically locking the nut in place. Simple. Easy. Cheap. Effective.
We bought these a month ago and gave them a try on our own scissor jacks. Essentially they absolutely solved the problem. They’re easy to store and do the job. There’s nothing more I can say about them but what is there to say about a device that’s this simple?
A word of caution
A lot of folks call the scissor jacks on the corner of trailers “leveling jacks” but this is generally not what they’re for at all.
Leveling jacks, like you’d see on some larger RVs including fifth wheels and motorhomes, actually will take the RV itself and use force from an electric motor or hydraulic source to lift the RV into a state of being level. Scissor jacks, on the other hand, are meant to stabilize a trailer or RV that is already leavel.
How do you level an RV? We have an article about that.
In Summary
If you have an RV with scissor jacks you’re definitely going to want to get one of the simplest and least expensive upgrades in the RV world: The RV Sizzer Jack locks.
