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Old 09-20-2004 | 11:27 AM
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Default RE: ThunderTiger Rare Bear

I was just curiuos, is anyone going to use or already has installed mechanical retracts? Kinda of wondering how well mech. would work, since you have to pull the wings off and loosen the set screw on on the retract servo to allow the retract wire to go with the wing. I thought that it would be a pain trying to get them to work properly again when you go to assemble the wings to the fuse every time, or even having the set screw wear out and stripped from tightening and loosening it all the time, and only to have the RB come in on landing on a failed retract, because of the wire pulling out from a stripped set screw. I'm not to knowledgeable with retracts as most of my planes are fixed gear. The only planes that I've had with retracts and they were mech. retracts were on the Dago Red and H9 Corsair, and didn't really care for the performance of mech. I think I'm ready to try pneumatic.

Just curiuos on the mech for the RB, so if anyone uses them, please post on how well they work out.Thanks

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