<span new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:">Hey Guys! Looks like great progress with a couple of y'all. Figured i better get over here and get to typing before I give in and buy that Coverite Peashooter kit listed on RCGs....I haven't heard tell of a Coverite kit in years. Had forgot they even built kits. Anyone know anything about them?
Shepard___You will getter done, slowly but surely................There was an old cliche in our family about a long slow process and hanging in there to get it to completion....'Like a Cat Eating a Grind Stone' (And why a cat would want to eat a grind stone is beyond me, but apparently somewhere <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>in our family past, cats had reasons to dine on grind stones). Just hang in there, plan ahead, and one task at a time. LOL if i would have been cutting lightning holes in the elevator of my build, it would have been to put lead weights in as nose heavy as mine is with the twin. Hogs generally build out tail heavy according to legend, but if memory serves me, i think your plan is to go with a light, high powered motor of some type. What are you putting in it?
Tom____Another Hog rides the sky) And a darn good looking one at that! Really nice photos!. And true to this noble bloodline's heritage, after its first aerial adventure, she flops in like a fat sow diving into a wallow
You did good moving the gear forward. We each had half the equation and weren't sure how good the advice was in the threads (me anyway), Dubro gear, and move it forward (which entails enlarging the plate), is the only way to go! (Prospective builders please note these suggestions) You didn't mention any nose over tendencies, which have been causing me all manor grief till i blocked the gear forward using spacers on the mount bolts, (and it still isn't far enough forward on mine, which will hopefully improve as i creep back on the cg). With yours, it's a shame the stock bolt pattern is different than the Dubro gear. Huh.....One easy solution for you on the strength issue isto get a set of the Dubro gear, re-drill to fit the stock gear pattern, and bolt her up. In fact, i am going to step out to the shop for a look see.......And this is what i see. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>A couple of solutions for thought. The Dubro gear is part 978 and had a rectangular 4 bolt pattern if you want to go that way. I don't see why you can't re-drill for that (kinda cheesy, looks like bad load distribution to me) 3 holes in a line pattern into the Dubro gear. Your wheel pants will fit, just have to drill the holes for them.........And just a thought, i wonder if you can't just whack the leg ends (see photo) off another set of identical stock gear, spray some paint on them and assemble them in a stack? Wonder if the bends would match? Might could tweak them till they fit together using a vise. Or use washers between the two to get the spacing right if the geometry doesn’t jive. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>Be like a set of leaf springs and strong as heck
I will be glad to stick the unused gear from my kit in a mailer and send them to you if want to try it. A few more Hog dances, you are gonna need them anyway. (And i don't need them, they are just in the way around the shop). It shouldn't add but a couple 3 ozs. or so to you pig's 8.75 lb girlish figure, and it would be worth the postage to me just to see if you could make it work.
Out of the 25 to 30 or so landings I have done so far, I have done about 4 or 5 were porkers that ranged from<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>'Jeez.... I kinda bounced', to 'Oh S___!!!!'<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>On the worse one, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>it went over on its back on the second bounce..... My gear is at the ragged edge of being far enough forward, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>and i have that 9.5 lb.empty weight, .75 lbs. more than you. Throw a little crosswind in and you set things up for great hog dance watching for the vultures in the peanut gallery
. When i did that double porker belly flop and she ended up on her back,<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>the tires getting cramming in on the first bounce (I have read that technically the proper term is better described as a 'Jounce') and with that crosswind loading them sideways <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">the first impact </span>caused a lot of scrubbing side loads of the tires, trying to roll off the rims against the pants which was like hitting the breaks for an instant or two. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>This started the rotation of the airplane over on its back which the second pork bounce a couple seconds later completed. Nasty looking...., a 'Ground Lomcevak'. Fortunately, nothing was broke. </span><span new="" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:">The spinner contacts first in nose-overs which is getting hard on the alinimun finish on the spinner, but keeps the cowl out of harm's way. Haven’t broke a prop so far, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>RPMs being low when it happens and running a tough APC. I sure hope things improve <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>when I move the CG back a little futher and i get my dumb thumbs trained better on airspeed management.. Otherwise I will have to re-drill the plate and move the gear location forward. Since I built in a large enough plate to do this, I probably should just bite the bullet and go ahead and git with it. I really need to get to work correcting these issues before i tear something up. Happy Hogging to all!! And remember, you better keep your approach speed up, (Before she loses interest in living and self destructs), if you want to make out with a flying fat girl!!</span>