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Old 12-04-2014, 01:00 AM
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Originally Posted by njmheli
Hi All.

Have just got my tail gear installed and completed the tail wheel doors ,so starting to catch up a bit now............I decided to link the tail wheel doors to the tail retract unit ( I did the same sort of idea on my P-47 ).All appears to work well,with very little extra load on the electric motor !!!

I had to re-spray the tail wheel doors as I found that the paint had very little "key to the plastic", I found out when I was doing the main gear doors etc........alot was just flaking off after the cutting etc.

These are a few photo's of my set up :

A short video is here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQj5Z0KuUh0&feature=youtu.be

Regards....................Nick (UK)
Great job. Are you using the Robart actuator? Your cycle speed is about 4 or 5 times faster than my setup which is using the Robart actuator.