Larry wrote: > If you are considering starting the wing dihedral at the fuselage > instead of the wing attach fittings as called for in the plans and > are using the Diehl type gear, the wing dihedral angle will carry > through to the camber of you main gear wheel. You will have > to shim or modify the attach brackets to allow for this.
Really, if you build the "bent up spar" thing using the AS5048 (the thicker of the bunch) airfoil at the root, it would be advisable to make your own gear leg to spar brackets, because the spars are taller than the stock spars. See the drawing in the middle of http://www.krnet.org/as504x/as5046inst.html for more details, but note that TET no longer sells these brackets, so you'll have to whip up your own out of .125" thick 4130 steel. Making them to the same dimensions (but taller) as the cast Diehl brackets should work fine, at least Troy made some that he ripped the aluminum gear legs off of and the brackets weren't bothered by it. These are probably no heavier than the Diehl castings. Don't ask me for dimensions though. Mine are kind of buried now. So when you weld these up, just change the angle a tad (seems like it's about 3 degrees) to compensate, and you won't have a camber problem... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
