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Re: Europa-List: Carbon Fibre Retractable Maingear

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Carbon Fibre Retractable Maingear
From: Nigel Graham <nigelgraham@mtecque.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 20:39:25
Hi Tony,

All the answers to your questions plus the background information and 
pictures can be found in an article I wrote for the "Europa Flyer" club 
magazine. Look out EF76 that appeared in March 2013. This does of course 
assume that you are a club member!

Nigel

On 27/08/2014 08:24, Tony Renshaw wrote:
> Hi Nigel,
> Building a Bob Berube Taildragger downunder, and your gear looks 
> interesting, and in the single photo, simply great. Where do you 
> intend to mount it, and how will you reinforce that area please? I can 
> only imagine it will be like the Swiss taildraggers, just aft of the 
> rudder pedal shelf. Id be keen to know what method you used to layup 
> the carbon fibre, whether you vacuum bagged it etc, and Im quite sure 
> all of us would be keen to know more on using carbon to make larger 
> thickness structural components, vs layup based applications. I would 
> anyway. Good luck with the project. Lastly, can you explain how the 
> articulating goes on inside that central bit, what the design allows 
> for, what drives it?
> Regards
> Tony Renshaw
> P.S. As I dont have a mono wheel in the way and it would be very easy 
> for me probably to install,  Id be very interested if you 
> commercialised your mod once you proof test it all and get it up and 
> running. Its taking me so long to progress, that what is a another mod.
>
> On 27 Aug 2014, at 12:28 am, Nigel Graham <nigel_graham@m-tecque.co.uk 
> <mailto:nigel_graham@m-tecque.co.uk>> wrote:
>



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