Hi STers,

I have a Woodway Desmo that I got second hand from one of the local fitness stores who had bought it from a fitness club bankruptcy. I got it 3 years ago, and have not really run that much on it (mainly because I only got back into more running in 2019). My son was using it for maybe 40km per week max for 4 months a year. Neither of us are that heavy (I am 140-147lbs, my son at 175 lbs or so). In any case one of the slats has a crack and if you run on it hard enough it caved below the other slats. I can jog right now at 9-10kph, but any faster and its not good when I hit that slat. At my son's weight he has given up even using it.

Originally I was going to get a technician over when this started last winter but then the pandemic took off and has not really got better at least to the point that we don't really want to have people into our house to do non essential repairs etc. with local Covid19 cases kinda accelerating through the roof.

So I am wondering if any of you have ordered replacement slats and done this yourself and if so can you do it with the tredmill on the ground without lifting and moving it because I have a few disc challenges and don't want to have to move this "TANK".

I have looked on the internet and can't find any reasonably indsutructions nor videos.