New Andersen WD hitch
A fellow camper bud showed me this. It's new and different. Anyone using one? Andersen WD hitches A U-tube video with the factory guy explaining it. You have to get past MR Truck doing his...
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BenK wrote:
John !?!... you've got me !!!!
Cleaning out the garage and coming in to check this site, so apologize for the
quickie comments...
Well, lots of assumptions on my part.
Assumed the ball is held in there by a traditional nut, but will have to see
how they capture it
Thought a traditional coupler with a pawl, but in looking at the image...there
is no latch.
So how in the world did they get the ball past the interference fit?...but that
is another assumption...that the coupler has an interference fit for the ball
like these images:
so if traditional, then that pawl will take the forces...but...since not traditional
how do they keep the ball from coming off?
By interference, meaning that the coupler has a lower hemisphere smaller
in dia than the ball dia. The pawl moves out of the way to allow the
ball to move backwards and then drop out.
That is also how I saw it.
I've not seen all of the types of couplers, but *ALL* of the one's
have seen look like the cross section diagram above
Architecturally these latches reduce the dia of the opening below the
ball equator so that it will not come out. Not to have that kind of
force on it statically and worse dynamically
Any asked them about this and if so, what was their position ?
Since the original image did not have a latch, did they remove the
latch and is now riding on what?
