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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Stephen on November 14, 2020, 11:12:38 AM

Title: Aluminium or Carbon profile landing gear
Post by: Stephen on November 14, 2020, 11:12:38 AM

Any suggestions on were I can purchase profile landing gear? Aluminium  or Carbon...

Title: Re: Aluminium or Carbon profile landing gear
Post by: Steve_Pollock on November 15, 2020, 12:11:44 PM

Check out Steve Wilk's "Eliminator Prop" listing down in the Vendor's section.  He makes carbon LG as well as carbon props.

Title: Re: Aluminium or Carbon profile landing gear
Post by: Brent Williams on November 15, 2020, 12:26:10 PM

Hobby King sells a very nice profile landing gear.  https://hobbyking.com/en_us/carbon-fiber-landing-gear-for-profile-model-40-60-class.html

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Title: Re: Aluminium or Carbon profile landing gear
Post by: Stephen on November 15, 2020, 07:47:38 PM

The hobbyking landing gear is awesome but none in stock.

Title: Re: Aluminium or Carbon profile landing gear
Post by: Brent Williams on November 15, 2020, 07:55:28 PM

Quote from: Stephen on November 15, 2020, 07:47:38 PM

The hobbyking landing gear is awesome but none in stock.

You might put a want ad in the classifieds section on this site.  Most control line guys are hoarders, so you might just get lucky!

Title: Re: Aluminium or Carbon profile landing gear
Post by: Craig Beswick on November 15, 2020, 08:25:02 PM

If this is the sort of thing you are after go to ebay and type in.

"Airplane carbon fibre landing gear".

You have to surf through the one piece but there are heaps.

Title: Re: Aluminium or Carbon profile landing gear
Post by: Stephen on November 16, 2020, 09:01:38 AM

Thanks for the help guys !

Title: Re: Aluminium or Carbon profile landing gear
Post by: Jim Hoffman on November 16, 2020, 09:39:25 AM

Steve Wilk of Eliminator is a consistent donor to our contests.  His products are excellent. I strongly recommend him

Title: Re: Aluminium or Carbon profile landing gear
Post by: Randy Powell on November 16, 2020, 01:48:54 PM

I make my own.  ;D

Title: Re: Aluminium or Carbon profile landing gear
Post by: Steve Helmick on November 16, 2020, 05:42:22 PM

Brodak and SIG sell aluminum profile LG (pairs). I like the one for the SIG Fazer, with the legs narrowed and bends tweeked a bit. I believe one of the sets Brodak offers is the SIG Fazer LG. SIG also sells flat blanks that you can start with.

It appears that all model aviation aluminum LG's are 6061T6...maybe not optimal but works fine, and no need for annealing, bending & re-heat treating which would be needed for more serious alloys of aluminum....IF you radius the bends decently (say 3x thickness).

I'm not a sheet metal guy or engineer, and I've used both aluminum and CF LG's, but IMO, CF LG's seem to be too stiff and tend to bounce...and bounce...and bounce. Anyway, I prefer the aluminum LG as more forgiving, and suggest avoiding all the usual axles that the R/C bods use, 'cause they're really way too heavy for our use.   y1 Steve