ORIGINAL: rg1911
Last check on source for 1-inch O.D. carbon composite wing tube and a carbon composite sleeve.
Although a couple places have the 1-inch diameter wing tube, none have a suitable carbon composite sleeve. And only TnT Landing gear even has a correct sleeve and it's a phenolic one that is, I assume, similar to the sleeve that comes in the kit.
If anyone knows of a source for both CF components, please post the information. Otherwise it looks like the TnT solution is the only one available for those of us who want to replace the kit's aluminum tube and who do not want to try to fabricate a sleeve from CF.
Thank you,
Richard
I've read the descriptions of "CF TUBE within CF SLEEVE", and I don't think that's exactly right. I am not saying the sleeve is made of CF...look at the detail picture of Kevin's sleeve above, or the PDF or the article which has a couple pictures of the sleeve. All I can say is that it's the same
general color as the CF tube, (although it had a slightly different consistancy, (look/feel) to it. You could tell when cutting it that the material was not exactly the same. Based on what you are reporting, get the phenolic sleeve...that seems closest, (and may be exactly) what we have.
The tube is 1", and the sleeve is a very close fit.
Duane
I'm not sure what "phenolic" means