OT - leaf springs for a trailer

Tom Woods uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Take more water with it! ;-)

Or use the working half as a radius arm and convert it to coils :-)

Lee

For now, if you are popping in to see him again shortly then -

spring is 18 inches eye centre to eye centre. 1.5 inches wide. 3 or 4 leaves (the big pile of poo in the field next to it when i went to see it put my counting off!) and the main one is snapped at one end. It is about 6 inches or less radius in the centre.

Rough price for fixing or replacing please, and im assuming that if one has already gone then the other one might need some TLC.

If i can get a rough price i can judge if it is worth me taking it on (and taking the spring off to fix) or better bidding on some indispension units or a whole new trailer.

Now youve got me thinking! - I think there might be both a spare saab rear axle and springs and a spare morris rear axle with leaves on it round at my parents house...

You can't weld springs, without heat-treating them again afterwards.

Steve

Eye diameter ? Photo ?

Steve

But he can probably give me a rough cost for a whole new main leaf to go with the other unbroken ones i already have from that description ;)

Bolt heads looked like 15 or 17mm ish. I assume there was a bush in the end of the spring too but i didnt look too closely..

I'll see if my mate will go take me a couple of snaps

Im really only after a very rough price at the mo just to see if it is worth it like i said. I can get a pair of indispension units for £70 or less or a complete other trailer for £50 - £80 off ebay..

I've seen that once, a DIY trailer with 1/2 a leaf, bolted to an axle with the normal U bolts and coil spring on top - looked good to me.

Julian.

And a new flatpack 1/2 ton trailer from trailers . com for very little money. (in real terms) I've got one such animal, it's very lightweight, and you need to put ply down on the floor if you plan to chuck heavy angular things in, but with a little TLC it should last for 20 years or so.

Julian.

Do you mean trailers.co.uk? Trailers.com seems to be a U.S. site that deals in heavy truck equipment.

Yes, that'll be who I used. (90% certain) Good service, a couple of plastic bobbins, used to fix the top cover to, were missing, a quick phone call and they came first class post the next day.

Julian.