KR Guys
When I converted my plane from retract to fixed gear. I set the axle the
same distance from the spar as the retracts were. Which is around 4" in
front of the face of the front spar. Now I am seeing here that this
distance seems to all over the place. Up to 10". My plane has a 20"
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Mark,
I already have the top bolts on the upper gear legs with steel fender
washers on the upper surface of the fiberglass. The bottom of the legs have
a single aluminum plate on the fiberglass, all per your suggestion several
years ago. With the aft extension I will put a steel plate in place
I appreciate all the comments and concerns about main wheel gear placement
for a tri-gear KR-2. I know the main gear placement on my KR-2 needs
improvement. I can work that.
One pronouncement is conspicuously missing: What should the horizontal
distance be in inches from the datum to the gear
Of course if you ever land this thing really hard on that leg, the
discontinuity in the leg where the old holes were drilled will likely be the
place it breaks, and if it breaks you may have prop/crank/spar issues
afterwards. There is something to be said for new gear legs if you ditch
the rea
Now that I notice that gap at the very bottom of the gear, the bottom bolts
would see some tension, rather than compression, but the gear bracket itself
is still doing most of the resistance to bending. I'd let the available
hole spacing be my guide, but sandwiching the bottom of the leg a bit
Larry Howell wrote:
>I'm not sure I would want to move the first bolt at the bottom closest to
>the shear web further aft out on the bracket but that may be structurally
>ok, I don't know that though. Maybe Mark Langford can tell us that.
I think the bolts at the bottom of the leg are just ther
Hi Sid,
I don't want to come across as some sort of know it all or expert on KR landing
gear because I have only moved the landing gear brackets from the front side of
a KR2 spar/shear web to the aft side and installed new Diehl glass gear legs
once on a KR2 to transform a taildragger to a trige
I sent an email last night but don't think it showed up. The photo I attached
must have been too large. Basically on tri gear leg there is a short side and a
long side on the upper taper. They short side goes against the mounting
bracket and the long side falls right in line with the bottom of
Thanks for all the suggestions and insights regarding moving the main gear
on my tri-gear KR-2. I understand that my particular KR-2 may not be
typical concerning tipping on the tail during boarding and de-boarding. The
why part is fairly obvious after a bit of on the airplane experimenting.
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