[TheForge] RE trailer comments

[Grover Richardson]

All my trailers are standard 2" ball, though not all need it.
Standardization is great, if it can be accomplished without bloodshed<G>.
I've tried standardization at work on several items,  some passed, some died
a messy death.  "We can't standardize because it inhibits the inherent
creativity of the engineers."  Seriously, that was a "valid argument."  Cost
a bunch of $$$ too.



>*>-----Original Message-----
>*>From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
>*>[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jerry Frost
>*>Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 7:09 PM
>*>To: Bob Ehrenberger; Sponsored by ABANA
>*>Subject: Re: [TheForge] RE trailer comments
>*>
>*>
>*>This was a real problem with the horse club we belonged to 
>*>when I was a kid. 
>*>Everybody had a trailer but everybody'd wired them 
>*>imaginatively. Father and 
>*>I got really fast at rewiring truck and or trailer to DOT 
>*>standard. There 
>*>was always someone with a breakdown needing a trailer towed 
>*>by someone else.
>*>
>*>Anytime we hauled a trailer or let someone haul our trailer 
>*>we made them 
>*>match our plug and wiring. No problem, they'd buy, Dad and I 
>*>installed.
>*>
>*>It'd be a really easy club rule/condition to use the 
>*>trailer. Just use the 
>*>DOT standard wiring code. Before long everyone will have the 
>*>same plugs and 
>*>wiring, even on none club trailers, etc. That's how it 
>*>worked with the horse 
>*>club, after a couple years we could haul each other's boats, 
>*>camp trailers, 
>*>utility trailers, etc.
>*>
>*>Standardize the ball size too, it's way easier now days, 
>*>with receiver 
>*>hitches.
>*>
>*>Frosty
>*>------------------------
>*>If it ain't forged
>*>it ain't real.
>*>Wrought iron is.
>*>The FrostWorks
>*>
>*>Meadow Lakes, AK.
>*>
>*>
>*>From: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>
>*>
>*>
>*>> Lighting can be an even bigger problem.  I loaned my 
>*>personal trailer 
>*>> to a friend last year only to find out that he had the 
>*>same kind of 
>*>> plug (4
>*>> flat)
>*>> but had mounted the trailer connector on his truck.  So we 
>*>had a gender
>*>> problem.  I think you can get a gender bender plug but 
>*>thats another 
>*>> problem
>*>> (times three for the three plugs you support).  Standards are only 
>*>> standards
>*>> when people follow them.
>*>>
>*>> I'm not sure what BAM does on it's trailer.  I'm sure 
>*>connector issue 
>*>> has come up, probably with the second guy that had to pull it.
>*>>
>*>> Robert Ehrenberger
>*>> Shelbyville, Mo.
>*>> eforge at centurytel.net
>*>>
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