I too have bicycle cable brakes on retractable gear. Workable, but never
great. Putting on the expensive drums (research the KR newsletter) helped
some, and replacing the bicycle brake cables with motorcycle cables would
help a lot.
Cable brakes are light, cheap, reliable, never need to be bled, and most
importantly for me, don't take up legroom at the firewall.
Use cable brakes and finish your project.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2022, 10:52 PM Dr. Feng Hsu via KRnet <[email protected]>
wrote:
> your landing gear looks nearly identical like mine. But my breaks on the
> wheels are cable activated, which is one of major obstacles preventing me
> to take it to the sky... I am wondering if yours were cable breaks as well
> initially, but you managed to convert it into hydraulic breaks correct? If
> so, please let me know where did you buy your break kit and how did you
> convert it successfully? I wanted to convert my breaks as well but didn't
> think there's enough room in the landing gear structure to install any
> hydraulic break assembly without major alterations or replacement of my
> existing landing gear structure... mine is also "retractable" from the
> original KR2 design, believe it or not?!
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Dr. Hsu
> N2830H
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2022, 11:34 PM Lulubelle Pitts via KRnet <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm having brake line leaks in the 1/8" plastic tubing, I think because
>> the ferrels won't seal the plastic ... any anyone else deal with this?
>> I'm thinking of replacing some of it with aluminum tube at the reservoir
>> but I'll have to connect to the plastic down the line - I don't want to
>> fish tube through to the wheels because I'd have to cut or drill ... don't
>> want to do that.
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