Harvard gear door

[Kevin Rochon]

Sorry a new thread on the Harvard, can't help it:o

While I was takin out the gear door to fix it I head something fall in the upside down cockpit green house. It was a little screw I figured out it was for the retracts I think the up line.

These "horreur" gas engine will vibrate just about anything off.

So anyways I'm trying to figure a better way to attache the gear door.

[Kevin Rochon]

Dan & me are breaking this silence;)

Most of the week I've been searching for a better method to hook up those doors. Finally figured a better way, as you can see that even the RH door was starting to break the glue joint.

I used a threaded hook for a pull pull system as I don't have enough room to use 2 ball links. Everything works ok just have to put some locktite and do the final tweaking and painting.

[Tarek Hassoune]

Good job Kevin brilliant idea

[mitea_dan]

Excellent. Maintenant c'est le temps pour vruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum, vruuuuuuuuuuuuuuum, la musique des anges.

[Kevin Rochon]

Thanks guys,

For the vroom vroom we'll need better weather:rolleyes:

Actually yesterday was kind of great for flying(anyone went?) but also perfect to cut and tie up shrubs and get the outside ready for winter.

[Kevin Rochon]

So today I finalized the gear door adjustment and painted the doors. I also changed the muffler gasket as the other one leaked(those smelly dirty engines:mad:)

I wanted to test the lights as they were quite dim when I flew the plane and the reason was simple one of the 6 AA cell leaked giving me a total of about 5v.

So I setup the plane in the shop and tried with a 2S lipo and a 3S lipo. It is pretty close of course it's brighter in 3S but the red & green nav. lights get hot which might melt the plastic colored lens but should cooled while flying.

[Sempai-mj]

Are they LED lights?

[Kevin Rochon]

Are they LED lights?


No they are reg. bulbs from RAM. I already had them and bulbs have over 180° diffusion as LED have narrow beams, so not seen from the sides, although they are getting better.

[Kevin Rochon]

Looked in my old Lipo metal box and found this 2S Kokam it was perfect for the lights as it doesn't pull a lot of watts. So put back together the Harvard to let it rest for the winter unless there is a perfect WE with 15km NW winds:confused: In the spring I might push forward the 2 lb dumbbell I still got about 2" more room because I have to put a lot of down trim, or put a 3 lb dumbbell which I would hate to do.

BTW I saw a little video suggested by the weather network site how to clean head light on car and since I use Arm & hammer toothpaste I tried it and it worked great.
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/videos/Gallery/does-it-work-see-what-happens-when-you-defog-headlights-with-toothpaste/2312993038001/2312993038001_0