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Old 10-29-2019, 04:17 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I am building my own enclosed trailer.

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You waited until now to ask the question?

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My first thought before I scrolled down was to fair in between the back of the fender and the front of the tail light and add a collapsible trailer tail.

Permalink #3 adds the pertinent information — the use case. I'm surprised that kach22i suggests adding frontal area.

The gold standard in these-here parts is Thee Holy Template. If you abstract it down to simple curves and add it to a trailer frame you get this:



It has the correct taper on the front and sides but not the top, which is the biggest deviation from the template to accommodate a rear entrance.

Just starting with a rolled face on the trailer sides would have helped. Is that race car's wing demountable?

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Okay, changed my mind already. Follow Mair:



Back to a collapsible tail, but the curved nose is instructive.
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