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Old 05-02-2016, 01:53 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Looking at the Trailer Tail, I wonder if you could add a foldaway/inflatable tail to your teardrop.

I'm always dismayed at the little fenders over the trailer wheels on these things. I think of two possible approaches:

1) Taper the fender both in profile and in plan. That is, it doesn't have square leading or trailing edges at all.

2) Capture the tire under the wall of the teardrop. This means the teardrop will have more width overall (especially inside, where some of them are pretty cramped), but it's not like it's all that big to start with, and with careful design it may have no net effect, especially since we're now talking about one with a proper tail slope, instead of the usual too-fast ones we see.
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