That's good enough for me. I just wanted an opinion. I had a goldberg cub years ago that used the flat straps, but they simply held the gear from falling out of the blocks. I made my own landing gear for my floats out of 3/16" steel. There are obviously the front and main gear, plus I welded cross supports front to rear on both sides. The gear itself is bullet proof, as well as how they mount to the floats. The mounts to the plane just seemed weak. If you have had good luck with them, then I'm satisfied. We had 3" of snow on the ground until Tuesday of this week that I wanted to "test" off of. Now I'll have to wait for more snow.. =(

Thanks for the response
chad