John Bouyea wrote:
My wheelpant brackets have broken again. Part of living on a turf strip I know but replacing them is getting a bit tiresome. If I’m making new brackets, I’m thinking of gaining the reported speed increases with the RV “pressure recovery” style. I have 5.00x5 tires on N133RM.
You may have seen this already, but I show how I mounted N56ML's wheel pants at the bottom of http://www.n56ml.com/kgear.html . It was a lot easier than I thought, and it worked great. Given your turf field, maybe you'd want to use a little thicker aluminum brackets, but it worked for me on many landings on my father's grass strip, which was a bit on the bumpy side also. For the outside mount, I welded a strip of steel with threaded nut welded to the axle nut, which worked fine also. I used Klaus Savier pants, but I'm pretty sure he no longer sells them, but am told the RV pants (not sure which ones) are quite similar.
The pants on Jim Faughn's plane are held in place entirely by clamping the gear leg, with that same center screw on the axle nut, but the problem with that is that there's some free-play and sometimes the aft end drags on the ground if the screws aren't really tight.
See the bottom of http://www.n56ml.com/kgear.html .... ---------- Mark Langford m...@n56ml.com http://www.n56ml.com -- KRnet mailing list KRnet@list.krnet.org https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet
