<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>As far as designing a new gear. I would be extremely happy with a ES gear or the exact copy. For my needs they were PERFECT. Anything else would be a compromise. Maybe to make it worth the time and effort. They could take pre orders. prepaid. </DIV>
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<DIV>That way instead of having to produce x amount and hoping they would sell. this way the x amount would already be sold. </DIV>
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<DIV>As far as a hundered dollars goes. I've paid 70 dollars each for the last two sets. A hundred dollars would really hurt me. But then again when i first started flying RC i couldn't figure out why anyone would pay more than five dollars for landing gear. Now i spend more than five dollars for a gloplug. </DIV>
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<DIV>Dennis<BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 10/24/08, Gray E Fowler <I><gfowler@raytheon.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Gray E Fowler <gfowler@raytheon.com><BR>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] CF gear needs and something to talk about<BR>To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><BR>Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 9:37 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv861225425><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>I am combining all the responses about CF landing gear. Getting into designing and fabricating something as simple as landing gear will require several thousand dollars, and a lot of time to refine the design. Several people mentioned a gera of lighter weight. The weight of the ES gear is just about the lower limit if not the limit. I have not examined some of the other gear that are reported to be 4 oz heavier, so I do not know why they are heavier. Some of the real light weight gear I saw (very good weight) were always broken ...people asked me to help repair. </FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>It appears a $100 gear would be a hit with the pattern crowd. As Earl stated there already is a $150 gear so that bounds the cost. I will investigate to see if this is possible and worth the time, money. </FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Thanks for the input.<BR></FONT><BR><FONT
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