Can you please help,

I Am fitting my Robart retracts into my TF P51D and the legs are just the 3/16dia jobbies. How can I secure the leg door onto the leg and have it about 2-3mm away from the strut?

Also, I have found in my kit that the wing skin balsa is mega soft and the wing is getting hangar rash allready!![:'(]

I will be covering it in silver Profilm, but is there a process of giving the wood some strength before I film it? [&o]

Cheers in anticipation

George

Remember, buy it, build it, and fly it!!

I used Century Jet retracts, so I'm not sure if this will work for you are not. I attached the top of the door by replacing the set screw in the top of the strut leg with a longer screw put through the door first then through a rubber washer between the door and the strut leg. I drilled and tapped a 4-40 hole in the support for the drag link, and ran another screw through the door and into this hole to hold the lower portion of the door cover. In the photo this screw is covered with a piece of fuel tubing to push the door away from the wheel. I think that you can buy attachments from Robart for this sort of thing if you can't make something like this work, but not sure?

You may notice in the photos that the retracts are no longer attached to my P-51...............this may be a bad time to warn you not to use the supplied plastic clevis for the elevator connection. The plastic pin on that clevis failed on flight #6 of my TF P-51. It took me an hour to find the wreckage in the middle of a corn field.

These retracts will fly again in a 1/6 scale Pica P-51.

Good luck!

thanks or that advise Martin,

I will be using those brass plated clevices from USA cant remember the make!! It was a late night last night [>:]cutting the bottom wing skin for my retracts and gear!!

Did your P51 fly well?

Cheers
George

Unfortunately, I was just getting used to the plane when I crashed it. For a scale warbird, I'd say it flew pretty well. It was a little more "squirmy" than I had hoped, but I think I could have calmed it down if I had more time to trim it out. I had a Saito 150 in the nose, so it was probably over powered. I've decided that I want a little larger P-51 than the Top Flite, so I'm going with the Pica 1/6 scale kit next time.

Good luck with yours.