- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
Got to build a boat launching trailer for the local sailing club. The trailer goes 100yrds max in a straight line 2-8 times per week every week, and sits in water for up to 20 minutes at a time.
The current trailer has some heavy walled round tube as an axle, and some more heavy walled round tube rotating around the axle, welded to the wheel rims to make a very crude bearing. The trailer is rotten and the axle tubes have worn paper thin.
Some of the other trailers use indespension axles but bearings give up regularly.
Due to the nature of the place routine maintenance has to be avoided.
So which would be the better option - a proper axle with bearings or the 2 bits of tube. Can you get properly sealed axles designed to be submerged for long periods?
Needs to carry about 3t and be single axle.
The current trailer has some heavy walled round tube as an axle, and some more heavy walled round tube rotating around the axle, welded to the wheel rims to make a very crude bearing. The trailer is rotten and the axle tubes have worn paper thin.
Some of the other trailers use indespension axles but bearings give up regularly.
Due to the nature of the place routine maintenance has to be avoided.
So which would be the better option - a proper axle with bearings or the 2 bits of tube. Can you get properly sealed axles designed to be submerged for long periods?
Needs to carry about 3t and be single axle.