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Originally Posted by freebeard
1) intermittent contact
2)On the end of a spring steel leaf?
3) Mecanum_wheel |
1) implies that on a railroad crossing, the trailer would be incapable of terrain following, and would remain 'lifted' off the ground, a cantilevered structure, perhaps eleven feet long. An unnecessary structural attachment requirement for a trailer which has a 150-pound maximum weight.
2) No steel is used in the trailer, except for the hitch socket. A 'composite' leaf (snow-ski ) is okay. Composite coil-spring is better.
3) The mecanum wheel still has 'diameter' issues. On I-70, west of Denver, Colorado, you'll encounter frost-heaves and moguls which would require instantaneous accelerations from zero-to- 102- feet/ second, on rough concrete or patched asphalt, with solid 'tires' with no give, and, say, only 50-mm diameter. I don't don't think they'd have much of a lifespan.