thanks john.
Did you make any mods to the mounting system. The bendy steel bracket
things seem well ...bendy. That said I had mine mounted for the first 150
hours and they worked fine....it's the grass that Im worried about.
Now that you mention it I do have a split on the bottom seam which I have
to reinforce...
Will
William Daniell
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 5:11 AM John Wighton <john@wighton.net> wrote:
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> My tri-gear using the standard spats and wheels with 2 x vertical 1/8in
> lite-ply formers set approx 2-3in into each main spat moulding. The
> nosegear spat has a similar plywood former in the aft moulding. All spats
> have a 1/4in drain hole on the underside.
>
> In winter the mud accumulates in the void around the wheel, I normally
> remove it using a [small] pressure washer. On odd occasions when it was
> left and has dried it shrinks and is prone to lock a wheel when
> man-handling the aircraft on the ground.
>
> I once weighed the [wet] mud extracted - approx 10lbs.
>
> If l was to redesign the spats l would add a mud-guard internally - set
> around 2in from the tyre outer radius. This would limit the mud but
> possibly also increase the risk of it getting heavily bunged up.
>
> All of my spats have carbon tows laid around the wheel aperture - this
> avoids splits in the woven GF propagating. I leave around 1/2in gap around
> each tyre.
>
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> John Wighton
> Europa XS trigear G-IPOD
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> Read this topic online here:
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> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=495808#495808
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