Today I worked on the wheel alignment. I ran through it all once, only to realize that the plane would never be moving on the ground without a pilot, so did it all over again. But unlike yesterday, I've had a charmed life today. Now that the wings are (temporarily) mounted, the gear splayed a little more (and a half a degree per 150 pound pilot or passenger), so I'm not nearly as toe-in as I thought I was. The wheels are almost perfectly vertical with 3/4 fuel. One 1/32" aluminum shim in the right place tomorrow should get the toe-in down to .75 degrees, which is close enough in my book. And the wheels will be almost exactly in line with the fuselage centerline. The photo at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/04110685m.jpg shows finding the plane's centerline with the laser level, and the rest I've done once before, at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/kgear.html ...
Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
