Video Transcript for Checking Out the TorkLift GlowStep Revolution Uprising Steps w/ Booster Step

Shane: Hey everyone, Shane here with etrailer.com. Today, we're going to take a look at the Torklift GlowStep Revolution Uprising. What would be the reason we'd want to add different steps to our camper Well, if we come down here and we take a look at the steps that normally come on your campers, steel construction and they tend to rush fairly quick so they become hard to put in and out. Plus they're floating steps, so there's nothing touching the ground. So when we walk on these, there's not a whole lot of stability there and you can see, they kind of move around. Plus if you're inside the camper sleeping and you come out at night or somebody's sleeping, you go to walk in, you're shaking the camper around.With the Torklift steps, you can see they're going to fold...

These are going to fold inside the door so once we leave, close our door, our steps stay inside, we don't have to worry about them staying outside in the weather. But they're easy to fold out, we simply fold them down. We'll grab this lower bar, I'm going to pull them out like this, we can adjust our feet and then we're ready to go. And you can see these are a lot more stable than our free-hanging steps. These are going to have a 325 pound weight capacity, they're going to be aluminum construction so we don't have to worry about the rust and corrosion.

All of our hinges, hardware, our hardware is going to be a stainless steel construction. Again, we don't have to worry about rust and corrosion or anything like that.I mentioned the GlowSteps, they're going to have a sticker that runs down each step down. Now, five minutes of direct light will give you 10 hours of glow. So you can see with all of our lights off, each one of our steps has a glow sticker on it that help when walking in at night. These are going to be a scissor style, so you'll notice we have three hinge points and what that allows us to do, is it allows us to fold up our steps into a nice compact space.

So it's not a whole lot of room that it would be taking up, it makes it easy to pull out and to push back in. Unlike some of the other steps where, on the factory steps that come out, once you get your second step in there it might be hard to lift up those two steps to slide them in place. Where with these being aluminum, they're nice and lightweight, we don't have to worry about all that extra weight.Let's say we parked somewhere and we have a little unlevel terrain. Each leg is going to have 12 holes that allows us to adjust this leg in one inch increments. The footpad on the bottom, now you can see a nice wide base so it gives us plenty of stability once they're on the ground.

But it has four rubber pads, so it gives us a nice grip when it's down. And this is actually the four step design. So you're probably asking yourself, "Well, if it's a four step design, what's the extra step" They actually call this a booster step. So what you would do is there's a lever down here that locks it and you slide it over. And this allows you to extend the steps out farther, or even to give you a little bit more height for ground that may be a little bit lower, different terrain levels.And this bottom step is a little bit closer to the ground for somebody that may have a problem actually stepping up higher. Now, if I didn't mentioned this before, these steps, these are the 28 inch wide ones and that's this inside bracket. Our step is actually going to be eight inches by 22 and a half inches, each one is going to have raised corrugation almost on it, to provide tread if your steps are wet. We'll come up here to this bracket and you'll notice it wraps all the way down, this is to provide support. So if you're walking up here and you happen to maybe step a little bit forward, you don't have to worry about your foot sliding in there. So it gives you plenty of protection there.We're going to have a nice grip here so when we're stepping up here with this being a metal surface, if it gets wet, obviously it's going to be slick. So having the grip tape there, we can step on it and we're not going to have to worry about sliding. Now being 28 inches, that's this bracket right here, inside edge to inside edge of this bracket is going to be 28 inches. And how you measure that is this flange on your doorframe, inside edge to inside edge. So that's what you need to measure to get the correct size steps, correct width steps. And then you want to take a measurement from the ground to the top of your sill plate right here. So you can see what we're measuring, we're measuring inside of that lip and we're at 28 inches. So, that's the measurement you need to give you the correct steps.Now to measure your height, you're going to measure from the ground to the top edge of your threshold right there. And these steps are going to fit 34 and seven eighths up to 42 and three eighths distance there. As I mentioned, these are very easy to fold back up into place, we're simply going to lift them up. If you have your booster step out, there's a lever down here on the bottom, you're going to push it over, fold it up into place, and you're going to rotate them right inside the door just like that. Now let's say you wanted to take these out for some reason. These are actually not bolted in place so they're very simple to get out. You're going to fold them up like this, we're going to rotate them back just a little, we're going to lift, and they come out fairly easy.Maybe you're asking yourself, "Well, if they're not actually attached to anything, how they keep from bouncing around inside the camper when you're going down the road" Well, right on the inside here on this bracket, there are rubber boots. What they do is they sit against the plate right here. When you're installing it, close your screen door and you push the steps up against your screen door. You can see these rubber pads here, push it up against the screen door, you adjust those boots up against this plate. When you close your screen door, it keeps this solid against it so we don't have any movement out of the steps. Let's say we have our camper parked where we park it for the winter, for the off season. We park it in a lot and we have to get up close to another camper, or they parked them close or tight.Let's say we have to get something. Maybe we come back in the middle of the winter and we need to get something out of the camper, for the solid step or the MORryde step, they actually come up in here so when you fold them out, they fold out like this. So if you're parked close to someone, you're not getting your steps out. So that means if you don't have a second door, you're not going to be able to get in your camper. With these, we can basically pull them straight out and pull them straight down to the ground to get in our camper if we need to get anything. Now, keep in mind with them set up like this, this is just temporary. You don't want to actually use them like this consistently but again, this allows you to get into a tight space if you need to get inside your camper or RV to get something that you may have forgot.Another thing I like about these steps is they, you can also get hand railings and you can find those here at etrailer. The railing would go from the bottom up to the top, it mounts to the side of your camper to give you a little extra stability when walking in and out of the camper. The other thing they offer is if you have pets, a lot of times if you have steps that are open, a dog will get nervous about going up the steps because they can see through it and they're worried about falling through. Well, Torklift makes a cover that has hook and loop fastener, and it basically mounts to the backside lip of your step and provides them with a cover so they can't see through. They feel a lot safer when they're going in and out.Another thing that they make, now this is a really neat thing. This is the shoe scrubber and where this mounts, it mounts right to the side of the step and you basically just set it down on there. Put it right on the bracket and it allows you to clean off your shoes, boots, whatever it may be, before you walk up your steps into your camper so you're leaving all the dirt and debris out here and not dragging it inside.Now we didn't remove this customer's steps, or the factory steps that came on the camper because they're actually welded in. If you have welded in steps and you want to remove them, or if you have bolt in steps and you want to remove those, you can find storage boxes that will fill this space, and you can find those here at etrailer, to give you a little extra storage for any of those other items that you may want to bring with you. As far as the installation process, the installation process is pretty simple and straightforward. You're going to have a bracket here that basically spans from one side to the other side of the doorframe. It's going to fit on the inside and you can see this lip, it actually is going to get bolted through that. So other than that, that is really the only thing you have to install other than setting the steps into place. That's going to do for the look at the Torklift GlowStep Revolution Uprising.