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Airframes => Single Seaters => XL => Topic started by: Bob S. on May 05, 2014, 04:46:28 PM

Title: Spring or no spring
Post by: Bob S. on May 05, 2014, 04:46:28 PM

MY guess, if I were building the XL with the big tyres, I wouldn't put no external springs on the gear as the tyres absorb all the shock. I don't believe the springs are even SHOWN on the XL plans, are they?

Title: Re: Spring or no spring
Post by: Steve on May 05, 2014, 04:51:32 PM

Quote from: Bob on May 05, 2014, 04:46:28 PM

MY guess, if I were building the XL with the big tyres, I wouldn't put no external springs on the gear as the tyres absorb all the shock. I don't believe the springs are even SHOWN on the XL plans, are they?

There are drawings for the struts in the XL plans and a jewel level design in the the Downloads by Engelman...

The springs are really nice if you are taxiing along slow in the rough . . .

Title: Re: Spring or no spring
Post by: Bob S. on May 05, 2014, 08:01:07 PM

Quote from: Steve on May 05, 2014, 04:51:32 PM

There are drawings for the struts in the XL plans and a jewel level design in the the Downloads by Engelman...

The springs are really nice if you are taxiing along slow in the rough . . .

OK.... I KNOW the springs are nice in the rough with the BMX wheels on the LE... 

What's the "jewel level design"??