Did my Andersen No-Sway WDH do this???
Or did the trailer service center? I'm not sure, what caused it, but after hooking up last night I noticed chunks of aluminum on the ground under my setup. I had just got my trailer back from serv...
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Housted wrote:
Look again guys there is no way that plate did that. The geometry is all wrong. Something such as a fork hit the seam just right to peel the metal like that. Look at the peeled piece it has a kink in it. How could the plate at a position below the tongue get up to that place to make the kink? Clearly the service place hit it with a fork.
Housted
You are all looking at it statically
Dynamically will have the plate arc backwards and forwards during
Whoop-de-doos
YouTube video to show what I mean by a whoop-de-doo, but not as
severe as this video shows
Whoop-de-doo YouTube
And if the latch has worn from the way an Anderson works...it will
allow the ball to move within the coupler
Why asked what the latch condition is in
When the ball raises during a whoop-de-doo...the spring tension also
reduces. Even might go to zero if the ball raises high enough. Then
if the latch is worn to allow the ball to move around the coupler
hemisphere...it can allow the plate to strike this tongue. Folks
with a smaller tongue would most likely have the plate miss it
The numbers of marks says over time, but it still can be the fork
lift, as don't know what the contact area of the forks looks like
It 'might' have a ball mounted on one of the fork ends and the fork
end hit the trailer tongue
BUT...those marks are on both sides of the tongue boxed section...still
could be that they drove it around that way to make so many marks
From the other weld beads....am sure it is a MIG setup they used. A
TIG with a wire feed would be similar, but betcha MIG with alu wire
