Hello Guys,
Just signed up on the site from a suggestion from a rep at: Robart Mfg., have read through this forum and I'm also interested in retracts for the cessna hi wing models, looking thorough the forum have noticed you have not replied about the subject in a while maybe I can spark back up the conversation, I was going down the same road to cessna.com, and I emailed robart to see if there were any custom set available with them or anyone else they knew and they sent me here.
I am purchasing a cessna 182 .40 sized and am also interested in going to the hanger nine 1.20 sized and would really like to see a set and be able to name it with the designation: RG or R182, I see what you guys mean by pricey customs by the one guy on the web you where talking about and wish it could be much more simple and not so expensive, in looking at the forum started on this, the first thing to say from me is that the main retracts have no doors to worry about and robart does sell a pair of gear that not only swings 90 or 100 or 110 degrees but also rotates, I think we could maybe use this app. if the retract would swing about 110 degrees and only rotate 80 degrees, I think that would mock what the actual system does on the real aircraft and would also look realistic, I will let you know about the rotation that is a question I would ask the rep at robart if you can limit the amount of rotation to only 80 degrees instead of it probably rotating 90 degrees, as far as the swing, from the angle of the gear straight down to the approx. position of the gear inside the belly of the fuse. I think that it would probably be about 110 degrees which is one of the model retracts I had seen on robarts web site,
if you get this message, and you have found out anything better by now please let me know, or let me know if you are still interested in figuring this out, and I will let you know what I find as well.
Hope to hear from you soon,
Steve, Naples, FLorida