Landing Gear Plate Installation

I have had hadr landing and have broken the supplied soft ply landing gear plates. I have substituted 30mm (1/8") hard ply for the landing gear plate. Later when I install my batteries, I add a 1/4" end grain balsa brach to further stiffen the center of the landing gear plate. The plate is reinforced at the fuse sides with two layers of 6oz glass cloth. I did keep the lite ply wood fuse side retainer. I will be using the Bolly F3A Long CF landing gear.