Easy boys!

Not got too much done over the last few nights but I have now fitted the retracts and all of the airlines plumbed into the wings.

Simon has supplied the model with the scale undercarriage set. The main legs are a work of art, machined from aluminium billet and with dual springs. The legs on the full size hang when they have no weight on them and they compress quite heavily on the ground. These legs have a soft spring so that they hang in the air and compress on the ground with another spring for suspension on the ground and those not so perfect landings.

As previously mentioned the retract units have nipples for 4mm tubing but 3mm can be forced on with a little warming and stretching of the tubing.

M4 counter sunk bolts are used to hold the units into the wing. The wood selection of the retract mounts is incredibly good that just drilling and tapping the wood gave a very good thread formation. A drop of thin CA was put down the thread to strengthen it even more.

Next job is to mount the gear door covers to the legs. I’m planning on machining up some standoffs from aluminium bar and drilling the leg to accept a bolt through the door cover & standoff. A little bit of fiddling me thinks!

Steve