[NSRCA-discussion] Long gear

[george w. kennie]

Anthony,
I installed a set of long legged gear on my Javelin by installing a gear 
plate to the bottom of the fuse just ahead of the wing, but I also did 
something that I have been doing on quite a few models for some time now 
which makes it all but impossible to pull the gear plate out. The solution 
is to purchase a piece of 3/8"X1/2" maple motor mount stock from your LHS. 
Cut this stuff the appropriate length to reach from the aft edge of the gear 
plate to the Firewall. If the side of your fuselage is not perpendicular to 
the gear plate you may have to do some innovative beveling, but the gist of 
all this is to glue/epoxy this member to the top of the gear plate and the 
side and bottom of the fuse and the back side of the firewall. Additionally, 
you install about a 3/4" wood screw up through the bottom L.E.of the gear 
plate and into the motor mount beam and also another screw from the front 
side of the firewall and into the END of the beam. You now have the load 
spread out over a very large area and steel reinforced. If you're concerned 
about weight you can shave the beam to a thickness of about a 1/4" in the 
area about 1/2" ahead of the gear plate and 3/4" from the back of the 
firewall. Don't worry about the 1/4" area, you can't break this maple stuff 
!!
Now, of course, once you've made everything this strong, any major event 
will cause substantial destruction, but this methodology is ultimately 
successful even on very rough landings that would normally pull out 
substantially reinforced gear plates.
Anyone with your landing skills will totally eliminate any future landing 
gear maintenance issues using this procedure.
Georgie



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Romano" <anthonyr105 at hotmail.com>
To: <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Long gear



I didn't think it would be a problem but the field I fly at is like velcro.
Broke the stock gear on my Brio and later had the stock gear plate pull out.
I alway try to land slowly and gave up on taxiing.

Anthony

>From: brian young <brian_w_young at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>To: NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Long gear
>Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:30:32 -0800 (PST)
>
>Im using the tall ES gear on a grass field. Its not TaLL grass but its
>working.  I kind of got used to the Stork look.....
>
>Keith Black <tkeithblack at gmail.com> wrote:  Couldn't be too bad, every
>electric has to use these higher gear.
>
>Keith Black
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Anthony Romano"
>To:
>Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:05 AM
>Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Long gear
>
>
> > One of the fields I fly at has very long grass which has been tough on
>my
> > planes. Using the standard ES gear I wind up cleaning a lot of green off
>my
> > plane at the end of the day. Is there any downside (other than looking
>kind
> > of dorky) to using the ES tall gear. I am thinking off the extra
>leverage
>on
> > the gear mounts, etc.
> >
> >
> > Anthony
> >
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