Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

Good info on axles and stuff
http://www.synthx.com/articles/trailer-versatility.html

THX, emiller. Always good to have a bit more info out there. This may come in handy. Saved page to my HD for future reference.

very informative................

Barb

Awesome information all around. Thanks for sharing.

Really good stuff. The discussion on torsion axles was particularly interesting.

Cheers,

Gus

Hmm, I brough this up a while back, and everybody discreditied it

Disadvantages: While it is true that they make torsion axles for larger capacities, we do not recommend them for the following reasons:
First, the loading of the torsion axle to the frame is more complex and localized on the frame. This adds stress (a lot) over simple the leaf springs described above.

emiller wrote:Good info on axles and stuff
http://www.synthx.com/articles/trailer-versatility.html

But with some howling errors mixed in with the rest.

Their comments about torsion axles display a profound misunterstanding of structures. And their 'good' gusset is a textbook example of how not to add a bracket on a tube structure - it's probably weaker than without the bracket, because the bracket will induce cracking.

So how do you tell the good info from the BS?

Andrew

angib wrote:

emiller wrote:Good info on axles and stuff
http://www.synthx.com/articles/trailer-versatility.html

But with some howling errors mixed in with the rest.

Their comments about torsion axles display a profound misunterstanding of structures. And their 'good' gusset is a textbook example of how not to add a bracket on a tube structure - it's probably weaker than without the bracket, because the bracket will induce cracking.

So how do you tell the good info from the BS?

Andrew

How about a few engineering classes!!! Rule number one -- don't believe anything you read or hear from the person selling it to you!