On 6/11/2018 6:11 PM, Christopher Pryce via KRnet wrote:
My first set came from a donor KR2 I purchased in Mississippi. It was a
tri gear and I was planning on using the gear legs for my conventional
setup. After I purchased it, I found out that the legs were cut with
angles on both sides. I was expecting them to have a straight edge on one
side. I called Steve Glover and he told me that there is a difference
between the two (when that happened, I don't know). I then purchased a
brand new set through Steve, in 2014 I believe, for conventional gear and
they are cut like the picture you provided.
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I purchased my gear legs from Diehl 20+ years ago and they had one
straight edge the entire length of the leg. They look to be the same as
NVaero is selling now. Unless Dan changed the design before I hooked up
with the KR community some 28 years ago I have no idea about the set
from the donor KR. I'm wondering if the builder of that KR modified
them, not that any of us builders today would do such a thing. I'm
thinking Steve is selling the gear legs in the same shape that he got
from Dan. I seem to recall Dan did a drop test on the legs for early
testing and Marty Roberts was involved in the early design / testing of
the gear. Someone mentioned the cast brackets are quite strong. The
brackets I questioned earlier and were changed by Dan were the lower
cast aluminum brackets that the axles bolted to. They were rather
narrow and had bolt holes to close to the edge in my opinion. There
were a couple of failures and Dan recalled them all and replaced them
with 1/4" 4130 steel. That has to be more that 15 years ago as I've
been flying mine since early 2004.
Larry Flesner
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