Peter Field wrote:
>
> I am a new builder hopefully taking delivery of a new trigear kit very soon.
> I have thought of making the cradle as used in a plane is born but cannot
> locate decent drawings for it. Anybody out there got good drawings or even
> a second hand unit they want to sell?
>
For the trigear, I found that the design of a "cradle" is not
critical. The only important job it will do is when the main gear is
set up, so it needs only to be reasonably rigid, height-adjustable,
not interfere with main gear placement, and ability to work underneath
the fuselage in that area. IOW, review that part of the manual
carefully. I made a simple dolly with 2x4's, 8-feet long and c. 48"
wide, with locking casters. Four vertical 1x4's secure to holes in
fuse sides at the joggle, with height-adjusting slots in the 1x4's and
machine screws/washers/wing nuts. Took only an hour to construct.
Regards,
Fred F.
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