Did my Andersen No-Sway WDH do this???

BenK wrote:
Yes...over lap meaning the trailing edge of the plate is behind the leading edge
of the trailer tongue bottom

By about 0.50" to 0.75" is my guess

So for the plate to 'get up there' and gouge the trailer tongue, it would have
to move forward or the trailer tongue has to move rearward about 0.50" to 0.75"

An interference or overlap

As for the OEM claim....the first series of pictures the OP posted both shows
the gouged area

Notice that one side of the weld still has a straight edge from the sheetmetal
shear.

If welded correctly, it should NOT be a straight edge, but a torn edge because
the tow sheetmetal sides 'should' have been melted and fused into one.

That is a workmanship issue and quality issue of the trailer OEM and
has nothing to do with the current RV service folks who tore the
tongue with their fork lift's fork edge...other than the current RV
service folks exposed that lack of quality workmanship. Otherwise that
would have been hidden forever or until some other event


Still think the Anderson is an elegant architecture, but a poor example of their
design attributes


OP...ask how you secured the Anderson brackets to your tongue? Did you use their
pointed gouge set screws? Or did you drill holes in the aluminum tongue? Welded?

Again ask if you can post some pictures of your latch looking at it from the inside
of the coupling.