Guy wrote:You are the Lord of Streamline, but have you gone over to the Darkside?
Neah, that's called "respecting another man's beliefs (however misguided)" as it follows Bob's original design as closely as possible....
Sadly the Darkside won in a recent UK census - there was a campaign to get Star Wars fans to put 'Jedi Knight' as their religious affiliation, as the rule was that if more than 10,000 (IIRC) people declare a religion, the government recognises it. The government changed the rules retrospectively! See what happens when you live in the land of the unfree and the timid?
Guy wrote:I did not look like the lemondrop with the dexter would be subjected to that much twist,even building to yankee overengineering. hehe.
Yeah, I may have overdone the transverses there - they were all 3"x1" initially, but the weight saving wasn't great. Also is looks like Bob's going to pile stuff into the trailer, so overdesign might be wise.
As fas as I am aware, the
only transverse that a trailer chassis needs is the one in the axle - all the others are there to hold up the body and floor.
The angle 'supports' in the tongue are there to hold up propane tanks, batteries, spare wheels, etc - they're not needed for the rest of the chassis
Guy wrote:You have also lowered the chassis with 0 deg so why the extra support. I know I am probably missing something so could you please explain.
I have looked at Dexter data and decided that I should draw trailers with the axles in their static loaded position, rather than their unloaded position. From their spec sheets, Dexter's rotate 22.5deg from unloaded to static load and a further 10deg to full bump (they say 'shock load'). So that's a 22.5deg (unloaded) down angle axle at its static load angle of 0deg.
Andrew