Mains (gear) on your 1/2A size airplane

Cribbs74 wrote:Looks well made Roddie, You are going to have to show me how they work in real life  instead of static displays.  

Seriously though, have you considered re-bending the gear on the RB so it stops nosing over on launch?

Cribbs74 wrote:That’s going to be a bit tricky. I understand the concept, but not sure how you would do it. It would almost have to be on a reel of some sort to provide enough tension to keep the tail down, even then it would have to break at the precise moment it lifts off the ground. That would be a lot of engineering just to get around having to rework the landing gear. Also when you land you will have to deal with the nose over again.  Just my thoughts of course.

Back when you built that I built the little Laird that had the same problem. No matter what I did the engine was just too heavy. I would have had to extend the gear past the prop for a ROG take off. I don’t think you will have that problem. In the end I took the gear off and hand launched it.

rsv1cox wrote:Good points roddie, and I love your attention to detail.

Like you, I look at everything before I toss it.  Music wire cut-offs especially.  Longer cuts or new music wire go in a 3 foot long tube that I got containing "Golden Rod" plastic control guides, shorter go in a special drawer.  Balsa too, but that's a losing proposition, most are too short or small to be any value for a full scale build.

Still love that "Rare Bear."

NEW222 wrote:Guilty about saving things here too.... But the other week, I finally gave in and went through all my 'savings', and got rid of whatever had not been touched or used in a long while. Mostly balsa though. Like Bob, I have a small tube for new full length or close to wires, and a short stubby one for shorter ones and cut-offs. As was said, the balsa box got a good going-through and burnt up a whole shopping bag full of scraps. And scraps they were. Anything that was usable, was saved, and if long and skinny, I 'stripped' them into sticks. After that, I bundled them together into groups, according to type. Sticks, 1" or less, 2" or less, etc.

rsv1cox wrote:

NEW222 wrote:Guilty about saving things here too.... But the other week, I finally gave in and went through all my 'savings', and got rid of whatever had not been touched or used in a long while. Mostly balsa though. Like Bob, I have a small tube for new full length or close to wires, and a short stubby one for shorter ones and cut-offs. As was said, the balsa box got a good going-through and burnt up a whole shopping bag full of scraps. And scraps they were. Anything that was usable, was saved, and if long and skinny, I 'stripped' them into sticks. After that, I bundled them together into groups, according to type. Sticks, 1" or less, 2" or less, etc.

Did you find out the week after you threw something away that you needed it?  Story of my life!

Got burned by it once. Literally.  True story:

I was burning up a bunch of my old balsa airframes and scraps back in the 1980's in an old Franklin stove.  Whiffs of balsa few up the chimney and set it on fire singeing the panel by the flue.  Got a bucket of water from the kitchen and the steam put the fire out.  Dodged a bullet on that one.

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Sorry, you know me, if I have a picture I'm gonna post it.