One other nice thing about the Grove gear is that you can get it custom made in both height and width and designed for your max gross weight. Go to www.groveaircraft.com ,order their catalog, fill out the form with your measurements and get a quote. They are great people to deal with. Mine is designed for 1200# gross weight, gun drilled and drilled for Tracey O'Brien axels. Gear with Tracy o'Brien axels, brakes, tires and wheels weighs a total of 49#. ED Ed Blocher Santa Rosa Beach, FL ebloc...@earthlink.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "larry flesner" <fles...@midwest.net> To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: KR>Grove or Diehl
> SNIP > And alignment should > >be very close to start with. Not so with the Diehl gear, which depends on > >arbitrary "hail Mary" measurements made on the bench before they are even > >assembled to the plane. > SNIP > And the biggie to me is that the Grove gear is > >taller, so slow, full-stall landings become an option. > SNIP > >Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > The alignment issue on the Diehl gear is much less of an issue > if the builder drills the four mounting holes in the lower bracket > but only one hole in the lower end of the leg. Mount the gear > leg and, with a single bolt holding the lower bracket in place, > do your alignment measurements/adjustments on the airplane. > > Some additional height could probably be gained on the Diehl > gear with "taller" lower end brackets as (I believe) Mark intends > to do. The longer lower bracket will add some additional > "twist" loads to the gear legs, especially on rougher fields, > but I SUSPECT the gear should handle it o.k. Be advised, > I'm NOT and engineer. > > Finally, if you decide to go the "Grove" route for the mains > and a Diehl nose gear, make sure they are compatable in > height so your three point attitude on the ground is > correct. That will be YOUR responsibility, not the suppliers. > > Good luck. > > Larry Flesner > > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html
