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Re: Aluminum Trailers

To: "land-speed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Aluminum Trailers
From: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:54:11 -0400
Race trailers are grossly heavy because they lack triangulation . One of the
axels is there just to carry all the poorly utilized steel . Our trailers
weigh more than the race cars they carry . An 18 wheeler type box trailer
where the skin is the frame carries 5 or 6 times its weight . At that ratio a
24 ft race car trailer with a stressed skin design would weigh 20% of what
they do .




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