Camco EAZ-LIFT R6 TT Hitch
Hi there Guy and Gal RVers After 20 years owning/using a 32’ 5W we are in the process of down sizing to a 28’8” OAL TT (24’ box length) Specificity an Outdoors RV, Timber Ridge 24RKS. Does anybo...
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Rover_Bill wrote:IMO, it is another marketing gimmick. In the past, the DC was looked at by an engineer on this site. He did all of the calculations, and the cams did not really add much. The DC is a friction based system..... And I believe the Camco to be the same.... If one really stops blindly accepting the marketing propaganda and thinks about it with a critical mindset.... It makes sense.carringb wrote:
I haven't been able to find much actual info on the hitch, besides their terrible promotional videos. How does this bearing "push" anything? That's not how typical bearings work... Does it have some sort of ramp or cam built in?
See this video at about about 1:54 and 3:40 minutes.
Turning the on/off cam engages the leaf springs under the single ball shown in the bottom plate. The underside of the bar holders are slopped to work with the ball bearing and exert the resistance/push force. There are two cam's - one for each bar.
If these cams really had enough force to"push" a trailer back into alignment, then towing in low traction situations would have rigs driving right off the roads on curves. There have been exactly zero reports of this happening. So the aligning force can not be much.
This is not to say that these hitches do not work well.... They obviously do. They just do not do it in a the way the marketing suggests.
They are first, and foremost friction based systems.
