ORIGINAL: vasek

The leg looks very good frets !

2 questions:

a) the drilling of the hole for the lower pin @ the new location of ''spring'' mechanism, wouldn't that make it fragile @ that point ? or did you weld-glued the pin ?

The steel tube of the Robart strut is a relatively thick gauge and the location of the hole has the added strength of the factory weld for the off-set, also any forces applied would be in line with the hole and not across it so bending should not be a worry

b) can you share the file for the scale drawing you show in the first picture series, pls ?

It is just a copy of the 3-view below. I took it to the photo copy store and made four copies; two normal and two mirror image or reversed copy. Cut one copy of each (normal and reverse) in half along the centerline of the fuselage and tape the half copy over the the opposite full copy to get a whole top and bottom view. Gave the top view and the bottom view to the store keeper, he scanned them into the printer computer and adjusted the image so that the print would be 71"/1800mm wingtip to wingtip and blanked out the fore and aft fuselage that I did not need. Then printed off a few copies. It was just really cool that when the copy was enlarged equally (100%x=100%y) to match the span, the profile from LE to TE was nearly perfect to the model wing also...only the tip is wrong on the model...and not by much. see my aileron post a few pages back and you can see that the tip did not need too much change.

Thanks, V.