Fixed gear mounting.

[Dowayne Gould]

Ihncheol
A flying buddy and I flew the Explorer 90. He used the self tapping screws
on his and they kept pulling out he finally changed the gear plate to
aircraft ply and didn't have any more problems.

I used 4-40 screws and blind nuts on mine. Mine popped the gear plate out
once. It seemed to be a lack of glue in the area. The plate just popped out
without tearing any wood up at all. I epoxied it back in place. I didn't
have any more problems out of the gear until I hard a receiver take a dump
mid flight and it went straight in at 3/4 throttle. It broke some wood that
time. Hope to find another some time soon , it was a good flying plane.
Dowayne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ihncheol Park" <PatternFlyer at msn.com>
To: "NSRCA" <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:07 AM
Subject: Fixed gear mounting.


> I forgot to ask.
>
> I am about to start building the JR Propo Explorer V90.
> The kit has fixed aluminum gear.
> The kit does not have blind nuts for gear mounting and uses self tapping
> screws on plywood block on wood fuselage.
> Would you install this way or with blind nuts and standard screws?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ihncheol
>
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