Retracts...
05-31-2004 | 03:06 PM
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Retracts...
I'm building a Sportsman Aviation FW-190 ARF. Assembling. Kit includes mechanical retracts, first time I've ever dealt with them. They come unbent, you fit them, then figure out where your wheel goes, then bend them to form an axle. Right? I got one perfect, the other one was about 1/8" too short. I didn't want to have to re-shape the wheel well, so I tried to unbend it and re-bend it. I succeeded, once. It bent in the same place and when I was unbending it, it broke. So..... as i see it I have a couple of options.
1. Build with fixed gear. Not happening.
2. Probablly wouldn't work, but try to braze the broke piece back to the retract at a 90 degree angle to make an axle.
3. Buy a new set of retracts and start over. But then I wind up with my original problem, I have to bend them.
Is there a product that forms an axle? I.E., a sleeve that fits over the retract with the axle already incorporated? The box picture dosen't show the axle bent, there seems to be a sort of collar looking thing over the bottom of the retract.
Thanks in advance
Andy
1. Build with fixed gear. Not happening.
2. Probablly wouldn't work, but try to braze the broke piece back to the retract at a 90 degree angle to make an axle.
3. Buy a new set of retracts and start over. But then I wind up with my original problem, I have to bend them.
Is there a product that forms an axle? I.E., a sleeve that fits over the retract with the axle already incorporated? The box picture dosen't show the axle bent, there seems to be a sort of collar looking thing over the bottom of the retract.
Thanks in advance
Andy
05-31-2004 | 04:33 PM
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RE: Retracts...
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I'm building a Sportsman Aviation FW-190 ARF. Assembling. Kit includes mechanical retracts, first time I've ever dealt with them. They come unbent, you fit them, then figure out where your wheel goes, then bend them to form an axle. Right? I got one perfect, the other one was about 1/8" too short. I didn't want to have to re-shape the wheel well, so I tried to unbend it and re-bend it. I succeeded, once. It bent in the same place and when I was unbending it, it broke. So..... as i see it I have a couple of options.
1. Build with fixed gear. Not happening.
2. Probablly wouldn't work, but try to braze the broke piece back to the retract at a 90 degree angle to make an axle.
3. Buy a new set of retracts and start over. But then I wind up with my original problem, I have to bend them.
Is there a product that forms an axle? I.E., a sleeve that fits over the retract with the axle already incorporated? The box picture dosen't show the axle bent, there seems to be a sort of collar looking thing over the bottom of the retract.
Thanks in advance
Andy
I'm building a Sportsman Aviation FW-190 ARF. Assembling. Kit includes mechanical retracts, first time I've ever dealt with them. They come unbent, you fit them, then figure out where your wheel goes, then bend them to form an axle. Right? I got one perfect, the other one was about 1/8" too short. I didn't want to have to re-shape the wheel well, so I tried to unbend it and re-bend it. I succeeded, once. It bent in the same place and when I was unbending it, it broke. So..... as i see it I have a couple of options.
1. Build with fixed gear. Not happening.
2. Probablly wouldn't work, but try to braze the broke piece back to the retract at a 90 degree angle to make an axle.
3. Buy a new set of retracts and start over. But then I wind up with my original problem, I have to bend them.
Is there a product that forms an axle? I.E., a sleeve that fits over the retract with the axle already incorporated? The box picture dosen't show the axle bent, there seems to be a sort of collar looking thing over the bottom of the retract.
Thanks in advance
Andy
FWIW - I leave the struts about 1/4" - 3/8" longer than I need. Then after I get everything lined up/set up, I trim most of the excess with a dremel.
05-31-2004 | 07:06 PM
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RE: Retracts...
Beeyotifol! Thanks guys, just what the doctor ordered. Should have gone this way right off the bat. Will have to go and give my LHS a little grief for not suggesting it...... as if they need to suggest ways for me to spend money there!
06-01-2004 | 06:44 PM
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RE: Retracts...
Well you know Robart makes some perty decent real workingstruts to get rid of those WIRE things However they are a little pricy. But like you say just put it on the VISA.
