I am working on my second hotspot and the kit I picked up came with a set of stock retracts. Two units appear to be plastic or resin molded case's, and the third looks like pot metal. What I would like to know if anyone has used them and how well did they hold up? [img][/img]

The Eurokit retract units will hold up VERY well in the hotspot. Even the plastic ones. They will develope a little slop with some use, but nothing to worry about.

The eurokit legs are made of some crappy aluminium. They will hold up on normal use, but if you have a bad landing, the will bend

check with wilcox over at jetcat.. some time ago there was a retrofit for those retracts with some metal side rails. i think he said he still had some around when i asked about them in tucson earlier this year..

William, I did not like these units at all and didn't have much success with them. I put Robarts in and never looked back. This was a few years ago and was my first turbine, but regardless, when I switched I never had another problem. That was my experience.

George

Hello:

I my last Hotspot I am installer the Skymaster gears, intairco struts (Robart would be best and Eurokit wheel brakes with rubers of JetPower. Perfet set.

The landing gear of Eurokit is only for the very best landings. No is strong enought.

I send you a photo of my Hotspot in Tuhnderbirds finish.


Good bye.

I used this eurokit gear in a HS, and it worked well for me, but I still prefer Robarts.

Best regards, Enrique

Thank you all for the feedback, I will probably install a set of robarts in it and not worry about the quality of these. Cmjets, that is one sweet looking HS, I may have to steal that for mine

They are less than useless. We call them Eurotrash here, The latest ones are better though still way overpriced for the poor quality.

The strut mounts with a 3/16" wire stub. Its very hard to align the toe in while grinding flat spots on the wire, also prone to bending in every landing. The nose gear was very slow to deploy due to the spring down feature.
V..

hehe, I guess Im the only one with good experiance with these retracts.

I flew my hotspot of grass fields, and have made some very bad landings where the 6mm hardened steel joiner pins just snap clean off.
Even the plastic housings held up to this.

I think my succes with these is contributed in that I used Behotec trailing leg struts.
These are VERY tough. 10 times better than the eurokit struts.

I have hovered/stalled the hotspot abot 80cm off the field, and then it free fell directly onlt the field onto all 3 gears, and there was no damage.
I have run off the runways, and into corn fields a few times at high speed, with only the nose strut bending a little aft.



In the pics below, you can see the silver behotec struts. The black eurokit struts are of very bad quality. As you can see in the pics of my too fast landing, they snaped into bits

The retract units never took any damage.

cmjets, that's got to be one of the best looking HotSpots I've seen, very nice work.

Angus

Hello:
Hola:

Thank you very much for yours words.
Muchas gracias por tus palabras

Own desing, adesive vinilo.
DiseƱo propio, vinilo adhesivo.

I put another photos.
Pongo otras fotos.



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Best regards from Pontevedra, in the Northwest of Spain.
Recuerdos desde Pontevedra, en el Noroeste de EspaƱa.
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cmjets, I have a hotspot on the way and If you don't mind I'm going to copy the paint job. Did you paint it? and does it have a clear coat paint on it.

any Iformation would be great.

Angus

Ontario, Canada

Hello Angus:

My name is Carlos. The fuselage is painted for get a color more white, but in my last Hotspot I not paint it,(there are a little diferent of colors, but no is important for fly). The wings and vertical fins are covered with Oravover. The rest is vinilo. If you know a place where working the vinilo, I can send you the file in Corel Draw for cut it.

Best regards.

Hello again:

My landing gears, 2.6L tank and the items that I use for mount the turbine, because without this things the turbine no seat fine.


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Regards.
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Hi Carlos, I have a friend that does vinyl cut outs, so if you could send me that file it would be awesome!!!, My Hotspot will be here on Friday I'll let you know how things work out.

Angus

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