[NSRCA-discussion] Impact Gear Installation

[Rex LESHER]

Ron

Would pics of the inside of an Impact help you?  I've got a bunch of them...
Including shots of the landing gear block assembly

Rex
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Van Putte<mailto:vanputte at cox.net> 
  To: NSRCA Mailing List<mailto:nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> 
  Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:28 AM
  Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Impact Gear Installation


  I'm building a PL Products Excellence, but am making veerrry slooow  
  progress.  The instructions are awful and written in Frenglish.  I  
  have to think my building several steps ahead to make sure I don't  
  build myself into a corner.

  There appear to be a few honeycomb pieces missing, like the rudder  
  servo tray and the firewall.  I say "appear", because I'm not sure  
  they were supposed to be included, but are referred to in the  
  instructions as though I should have them.

  Nothing is said about mounting the landing gear in the fuselage and  
  the "instructions" show retracts in the wings!  Didn't Tony  
  Stillman's Excellence have wing-mounted landing gear and didn't his  
  wing fail through the landing gear area?

  When I e-mailed John Fuqua about this, he told me that I might want  
  to look at the Impact gear install system.  "Basically one 360 former  
  in the fuse with a second 1/2 former next to it with the landing gear  
  plate between the two. Former was made out of carbon faced ply.  Cut  
  a slot in th fuse for the gear to slide into and on the gear plate  
  and held with 3 bolts.  Very strong. Used to be pictures on the  
  website but not sure if they are still there."

  If anyone has some suggestions on building the Excellence or the  
  Impact gear install system (what's the website url?), I'd appreciate  
  hearing about it.  Thanks.

  Ron Van Putte


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