Sorry Mike. I did not really mean to be so hard on you about the gear wire size. My point actually was that it is metric which maybe some guys will not realize. This is the case with a lot of these ARF's. Even the builders should know that welding that small back brace wire is bad news. It is too thin to weld very good at all. Some of the welds on my gear have been heated almost half way through the wire at the joint which actually by the time it is heated from welding, it is very weak. They have defeated their own purpose.


Ken