[NSRCA-discussion] Help with my Quest 2 landing gear!

[jivey61 at bellsouth.net]

John
I have actually broken a fiberglass gear. It came on a Focus years back. I
carefully pieced the gear back together meshing the break as close as I
could and saturated the break with thin CA, The CA was totally absorbed in
the stringy glass fibers,and I continued to use the gear.I think it was
stronger than before.
You just have stress cracks it sounds like and this might work for you.It's
worth a try.

Jim Ivey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Konneker" <jlkonn at hotmail.com>
To: <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:06 PM
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Help with my Quest 2 landing gear!


> I have a Quest 2 I am flying to get back in to pattern after being gone
> since the '80s.
> After it's 56th flight today I noticed the landing gear has begun to show
> cracks.
> A bad one at one of the gear/fuse mounting holes and some "spiderwebbing"
> where the gear makes it's bend from the fuse bottom to turn down to form
the
> gear leg.
> I can order another from Ultra RC (I hope) but I'm afraid I will be in the
> same shape after another 56 flights.
> The dimensions are:
> width at fuse    -      4"  approx 100mm
> width axle hole to axle hole - 13 3/4" or approx 350mm
> height from axle to fuse  8 1/4" or approx 210mm (this is what the height
> would be if a plumb was droped from the fuse bottom to the ground...not
the
> length of the gear leg)
> Rearward sweep of the gear is approx 2" or 50mm.
> Can anyone suggest a carbon replacement (the original is fiberglass).
> I've checked a couple of the obvious sources like Central and Bolly but no
> luck.
> Does anyone know of a gear available from Goldberg, Great Planes, etc?
> Thanks for wading thru this mess!
> John L. Konneker
>
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