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@moz Here I found a closeup of the new trailer. Same kind of deal - spring (if shorter), bolt connectors on either side of a spring, but instead of the longer curved pipe it's got a short straight pipe.

@moz Here's a picture of the new trailer that includes the short, straight end pipe. Everything else is identical to the other trailer, basically.

https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/115097254644145005

@moz The other trailer connector end looks exactly like the one in the first photo, but it's shorter and doesn't bend. Everything else is exactly the same.

There's no idea here. I've got this new trailer I built with a short straight pipe at the end and the old one with a longer curved pipe at the end. Everything else about them is absolutely identical and I didn't invent any of it.

so, yeah. I could print a thing. I don't know whether I could bend a pipe or not, because the walls are pretty thick and I don't know if a pipe with that OD and that thickness can handle a bend like that without, idk, a factory or something.

Or maybe I could adopt the new 45° bike-side hitch and cut the old trailer's pipe down short like the new trailer's pipe and drill the necessary holes, and go to that system instead.

I definitely do not want to be switching out trailer hitches on the bike side every time I attach a different trailer. That's not acceptable and I shan't be doing that.

So. Anybody familiar with this situation and got an answer? Because I'm not and don't.

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A 1" pipe-shaped trailer hitch can fit into either of these bike-side trailer hitches, in theory - the diametres all work.

EXCEPT

...for the problem where the angles don't match so it doesn't work. The latter one expects to connect to something with a 45° angle mid-connector, and the former expects a straight-on connector, and no such additional bend.

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But that's not the kind it came with, or the kind I have on my bike right now. It came with this kind, which _is_ the kind I have on my bike right now:

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One thing that's confusing me is that the short straight end piece this trailer came with seems to be intended to connect to this kind of hitch, not the kind I have:

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This part - the part above the spring, with the 45° bend - is on the first trailer I made. It's also the kind of part I don't have on the new trailer I built.

It has a post-spring section with the same secondary holes for screws and the latch, but it's short and straight instead of longer and curved.

I think I can use that short-and-straight version by removing the plastic stiffener that is inside the spring on the new trailer. But I'd rather have a piece more like this one, because it would add more space between the front of the trailer and back wheel.

I still don't even really know what this bendy pipe is called. Hitch connector? But that doesn't work really well in searches. So.

Anybody know?

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