Chuck Craven wrote:Ok Mike! You just made a major change! The stress thing is all different on this. So take your 4” grinder and get rid of the paint on the inside edges of the angle iron. Now 2” square tubing from the back of the angle iron to the front weld it, inside the angle iron spring hangers. At the front of the 2” and angle iron point you need to cut a v notch in the sqr tubing not all the way through. Its an inside v notch. Bend the tubing in, to form the tongue, same on the other side. Weld the closed v notch closed. With the flex ride axel all that would be needed is to bolt/weld the axel to the 2” sqr tubing. One may have to weld another piece of 2” parallel with the mounting plat to make it a little stronger. But with springs you need to take a 2” sqr tube from the center of 2” tubing, where the spring hangers are welded. And weld it parallel with the axel, from one side to the other side. Now you have a triangle, weld some small angle iron pieces to the tongue to bolt the floor plywood too. Don’t bolt through the 2” sqr tubing that may give you a weak spot for stress cracking. On top of the plywood floor use angle iron or angle aluminum like 1” X 1” all around the plywood edges to mount the walls to the floor. This will be your trailer frame. It just will be on the inside of the body. Tar the bottom of the plywood floor like normal before assembling. It should be quite light and strong!
Chuck
Chuck,
I'll try again in the morning. Right now I'm just not picturing what you are saying...
If you can make a quick MS Paint drawing, that would help... otherwise, we'll be talking again tomorrow...
Mike...
Chuck
