I recently finished putting together my Hangar 9 AT-6 Texan ARF. I flew it for the first time saturday and sunday. The biggest problem I have found is the crappy retracts Hangar 9 puts on this plane. Both on take off and landing one if not both landing gears want to fold under. I have made sure that they are completely locked into position, but they feel extremely loose and wiggle way too much.

Does anybody have any suggestions on a better quality mechanical retracts to replace these "crappy ones"?

One way to get rid of the play and wiggle is cut off the struts just above the coils and install Robart RoboStruts.

Pull the retracts out. Many of them have adjustment points for minimizing "slop".

Another possibility would be to replace them with a decent set of retracts that have a 3/16" strut. I know Robart makes them with 3/16" struts and "I THINK" Dave Brown does also.