Craig, you are on your way. Good going. I have two comments if I may. I did build the same gear years ago and you are very close to retractable should you desire to go that route. On mine, I welded a stub shaft on the WAF and a piece of tubing on the upper end of the gear leg that slid over the stub e.g... a hinge. The other comment I have is the example KR you show with the gear legs already mounted. The gear is raked forward dramatically transfering much of the landing loads to the tubes and wing spars instead of the die springs and could be damaging in/on rough field operations or when 3 point landing. Has that plane ever been finished and tested? Have you looked at the gear design used on WAR aircraft? Pat Russo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Williams" <kr2seaf...@yahoo.com> To: <kr...@mylist.net> Cc: <rhwd...@aol.com>; <t...@corsair82.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 3:58 PM Subject: KR> even more progress on the gear
> > http://www.kr2seafury.com/9.html > > > 12/21/2010 update: Almost have one gear done as you can see in the > pictures. The distance from the bottom of the spar to the ground will be > 19". Right where I wanted to be...Sweeet... The gas welding is a slow > process but I am getting the hang of it. As of this stage the gear weighs > just 9lbs 9 oz. I should be right at 15-18 lbs with the wheel, tire and > brakes. NICE... > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
