N.S.A. Ready Brake
I would like to give a big "thumbs up" to N.S.A Ready Brake Company and to a gentleman, Bob from Washington. I bought a new, in box Ready Brake system on ebay,from Bob. He stopped RVing before he ...
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tropical36 wrote:paintedtugboat wrote:skipro3 wrote:
I've got a gripe with Ready Brake. I have their break-away system and my link was damaged. I checked and the only place to buy one of these little pieces of what looks to be stamped aluminum sheet metal with a couple holes punched in it is through their website. No other sellers offer it. It ended up costing me $26 with shipping. I'm even in the same state as they are; California, and the shipping was still exorbitant. The little link is $18 without shipping.
I bought the break-away from Amazon for $83 shipped, so $26 for the little link is just a way the company can make huge profits. I bet the thing doesn't cost more than a few pennies to make. In fact, they ought to put a few in the kit, not just the one. Adding 3 or 4 to a kit wouldn't cost them hardly anything, but then they couldn't charge $26 each if you happen to n
With my new link, I went to the hardware store and bought some stock and fabricated my own. It's not red like the factory one, but it is the weakest link in the system and will work just as good as their high dollar replacement.
After finding out how much it cost, why didn't you make one yourself? Easy enough to do with materials from Lowes. Or you could have contacted them and asked for one.
To the OP also, think of this link, as you would a fuse protecting an electrical circuit. It's been engineered to break and severe the cable at a predetermined load. Once the toad brakes are locked up, you no longer want this cable connected to it, which could cause a dangerous situation over and above the one that's already been created.
You are right. This is essentially what this thing is. It is designed to break away from the coach after it has locked up the toad brakes. Which means the receiver hitch failed or the tow bar failed. This would be catastrophic and making things right would cost more than the $26 to replace this part.
I have heard of bad people going into fuel stops and rest stops on the highway stealing hitch pins and tow bar pins so I can see they might also take this little part. I always check the tow bar, hitch, light cable, safety chains, etc when ever we stop.
