[NSRCA-discussion] Focus II Landing Gear crack

[Bob Harden]

Jim,

Thanks for the advice.  I didn't think about using CA to repair it.  I think you are saying to clamp it back together and then use thin CA to wick into the fibers to set a repair?  Is this correct.

Thanks,
Bob
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jivey61 at bellsouth.net 
  To: NSRCA Mailing List 
  Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 7:33 PM
  Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Focus II Landing Gear crack


  Bob
   The Focus gear is made of molded stringy fiberglass.I broke mine several years ago and had to fix at the field(contest). I made the stringy break... jam back together and soaked it with thin CA.The CA was absorbed into the fiberglass and the gear was fixed.I used the gear for a long time after that. If yours is just a crack you could do the same thing. Open the crack if you can and soak in CA. The reason the gear is 2 pieces is the way it mounts into the fuse.If it was one piece I think it would tear up more fuse in a hard landing.

  Jim Ivey
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Bob Harden 
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    Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:56 PM
    Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Focus II Landing Gear crack


    Hello all,

    The left side of my Focus II landing gear has cracked and I thinking of getting replacement gear.  The Focus gear are in two parts; a left half and a right half. The particular gear I have is a white color; not sure just what it is made of.  I see on the Piedmont web site that there is a black colored gear which might be carbon fiber?   I am wondering if others have noted cracking in their Focus landing gear and what is being done about replacement?  It seems to me a single gear would be better than a two halves gear.  What is the membership experience?

    Bob Harden


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