Well, if nothing else, that "mousetrap line" gave me a good laugh!

Thanks,

bumper
Cobra - full clamshell, LED rear lights, never bitten yet.
"Wallace Berry" wrote in message
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I really don't care how the trailer looks. It's all
how it protects the glider from the elements, from
a crash on the road, how easily it tows, and how easy
it make to rig and de-rig.

But of course, if it looks good, there is nothing wrong
with that!

Ray


I agree absolutely! The latest and greatest 55:1, multispan,
bewingletted, electronics festooned wonderflugel is just a big, white,
plastic turd in the absence of a good trailer. If the trailer tries to
drive the car, or doesn't protect the glider well, or if the glider is
too difficult to rig out of the trailer, then the bird just won't get
flown.

My flaky looking trailer does pretty much everything well - for what is
essentially a tube trailer. However, full clamshell trailers are almost
always superior to tube trailers when it comes to assemby/disassembly of
the ship. I can't think of a single instance where I have found a tube
trailer design to be substantially superior except in ease of
manufacturing. Now, the half clamshell trailers, such as the old Libelle
factory trailers, Eberle, I believe, effectively combined all the worst
features of the tube and clamshell trailers. Leaky, heavy to raise the
clamshell, not very convenient for rigging, and with the one I had, I
was constantly banging my head on the low hanging rim of the trailer. I
suspect the Eberle company's other products consisted of a line of
particularly vicious moustraps.