So, I have this super-nifty mobility scooter called a Travel Scoot. Darn thing, including batteries, only weighs 35 pounds. The trailer is quite a bit less. I use this for taking my husband to doctor appointments in the "extra seat" configuration. It has one problem: you can't back up and you can't make a U-turn in a hospital elevator. It's easy to lift the trailer tongue off the scoot, reposition the scoot and reconnect... but if I set the tongue down, my husband falls off!

What I want to do is make a folding leg for the trailer tongue with a caste on the bottom. It would fold up against the tongue when in transit, fold down long enough to hold it up while I turn the scoot and the trailer, and then fold up out of the way when we're in transit again.

This can also work for the flatbed configuration when I have dog crates strapped to it so if the trailer's detached, the dogs aren't listing at a 45 degree angle.

I will have to go measure the distance from the tongue-in-use to the ground, then subtract the height of the caster from that for my conduit length. I also have to measure the outside diameter of the trailer tongue to be sure the Maker pieces will fit.

I think with will work with an ADJUSTABLE ANGLE HINGE CONNECTOR (probably the silver puzzle piece?), the length of conduit, and a single caster.

Thoughts? (attached pictures are of the Scoot and its Trailer.)