Trailers - WTF?
Discussion
A mate of mine sold me his old trailer. $50 which wasn' t too bad given it has 2 brand new tyres on it.
Questions that have arisen so far are:
1) why is there more than one tow ball size? Mine is 1" and7/8, not 50mm.
2) why are there what seems like eleventeen different wiring connectors?
I've got a big round connector on the trailer and a small round connector on the car. So off to supercheap for an adaptor I go. Get home and find out the @&$@ing car is a 6 pin not a seven pin
Further investigation reveals I also need a small 6 pin to a small 7 pin round connector. By the time I get that I'll have spent as much on connectors as the bloody trailer cost!
Is this the same as the diffrent railway gauges? I can just imagine how it went...
NSW government "We are going to use 50mm balls and large 7 pin round connectors "
Vic government "but we use 1"7/8 balls and small 6 pin connectors"
NSW goverment "We don't care"
I love this place, but there are times I wish they behaved like a proper country.
Questions that have arisen so far are:
1) why is there more than one tow ball size? Mine is 1" and7/8, not 50mm.
2) why are there what seems like eleventeen different wiring connectors?
I've got a big round connector on the trailer and a small round connector on the car. So off to supercheap for an adaptor I go. Get home and find out the @&$@ing car is a 6 pin not a seven pin
Further investigation reveals I also need a small 6 pin to a small 7 pin round connector. By the time I get that I'll have spent as much on connectors as the bloody trailer cost!
Is this the same as the diffrent railway gauges? I can just imagine how it went...
NSW government "We are going to use 50mm balls and large 7 pin round connectors "
Vic government "but we use 1"7/8 balls and small 6 pin connectors"
NSW goverment "We don't care"
I love this place, but there are times I wish they behaved like a proper country.
Edited by Jader1973 on Sunday 24th February 09:13
The one that gets me is the trains. No way you can get a single train through a state to another as the gauge of the track is different in each state according to my sparky mate.
I mean come on! Didn't the yanks get this right years and years ago and they had massive distances!?
That and an open/cone air filter on a car is illegel in NSW but nowhere else.
I mean come on! Didn't the yanks get this right years and years ago and they had massive distances!?
That and an open/cone air filter on a car is illegel in NSW but nowhere else.
TAS1981 said:
The one that gets me is the trains. No way you can get a single train through a state to another as the gauge of the track is different in each state according to my sparky mate.
I mean come on! Didn't the yanks get this right years and years ago and they had massive distances!?
it gets worse, each state has different signalling systems so a green light means different things in different states, further more the electrical overhead traction systems are different as well. Melbourne and Sydney has 1500VDC whilst queensland, south australia and perth have 25KV 50Hz AC.I mean come on! Didn't the yanks get this right years and years ago and they had massive distances!?
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