A 12 ft. FEATHERLITE conversion

[Prem]

Yeah. I had a tent trailer once. Camped in it once and then sold it for all the reasons Jim mentioned and more (the canvas had a bad smell, like fungicide).

[Prem]

Aerodynamics: It's more important how you put the air stream back together (rear end) than how you part it in the front. Hence:

[Prem]

These help. Put them on my CT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f80a9jssUFU

[mezmo]

So the Russians are flying their jets on wood gas now ???

Cheers,
Norm/mezmo

[Prem]

No. They just don't give a _____ about air pollution or their people.

We have much cleaner burning jet engines.

[wtcreaux]

We have much cleaner burning jet engines.

Civilian planes yes.....B-52's?? Not in the '80 and '90's.....on take-off, would put out tremendous amount of dark smoke (Barksdale AFB)......we were told water as injected to assist with taking-off......

[Prem]

Yup. Cleaner burning jets were not required of the U.S. military. B-52s are likely the darkest exhaust dumpers.

[Prem]

Framed with sticks:




Welded frame .

[lrrowe]

Ugh....not good Prem.

[Prem]

Bob,

Just another obvious reason why cargo trailers (with welded ribs) are infinitely better/safer than stick-framed RV trailers.

Prem

[Prem]

Air ride suspension. No long axle either. Monocoque/Exoskeleton construction (like Featherlite CTs)

[desertrat222]

i always wondered how true the alignment would be on this design. But if you down weld the curved axle under a trailer correctly it would be way worse then this. my trailer eats my passenger outside edge so apparently they didn't get mine very close. i need to do some measuring and tweaking and try to get my alignment more accurate

[Prem]

FWIW: Single axle trailer tires get scrubbed on curves and corners more than tandem axle trailer tires, especially if they are loaded at or over their weight rating. My son scrubbed his from new down to the steel belts on one (heavy) 2,000 mile trip. My aluminum, single axle trailer is grossly under weight and doesn't travel far from home, so the tires show no wear pattern.

[Gonefishin]

Wow, 2000 miles and worn down to steel? That has to be some defective rubber? I can't imagine, unless he was running 120-180 mph around Daytona or something. I just put a new set of tires on mine a few days ago, even though I had a few thousand miles of tread left on the old ones. I got over 10,000 miles on those old ones, and most of my trips are of higher speed, summer, hot pavement variety. I keep them at 60 psi cold.

[hankaye]

Gonefishin, Howdy;

You also don't keep 80% of your interior weight on one side of the trailer either...
From what I remember of yours, the weight is fairly well spread out in yours.

hank