Rick Griewski Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Metal landing gear at Sprue Brothers. Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Enforcer Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 I got the F7F Nose Strut and the 48th MiG-25 Gear from Ernie a couple weeks back. Nice castings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Bought the F7F Tigercat G Factor Gear from Sprue Brothers yesterday: just in case the bug bites Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 (edited) Ordered mine too.....twice, one for the HPH kit, and one as substitute for my already finished combat Tigercat........at last both its main gear broke at the oleo after oh more than 5 years.......... Edited March 28, 2018 by Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 I got one as well whereas I still have to order the kit. This may seems weird but when you know the availability of such sets, I believe this was a wise idea... Jack and Paul in Napier 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 Actually on hind sight i might have made a kind of rash decission: G-factor is indeed offering the "gear", but......does it also include the main gear strut(s)? (those i was actually looking for) I do need the nose gear anyhow, but on trying to ascertain the actual offer, i only saw a nosegear assembly....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 No Jack, the set only includes the nose gear, not the main legs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 No Jack, the set only includes the nose gear, not the main legs. YEP, but no worries, i can use the nose gear aswell, just have to figure out the "now" broken main gear at its oleo position........i'll figure it out, that's modelling isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 The castings look pretty rough and will take a fair amount of clean up. Close inspection of the gear struts in my kit reveals that there is a steel rod skeleton imbedded in all of the resin strut pieces! That is an awesome touch. I was afraid that I was going to have to do that myself; make the skeleton from steel wire, drill a channel in each strut, insert the skeleton and fill the channel and wire with some liquid resin. HPH did it for me. Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 1 hour ago, STM said: The castings look pretty rough and will take a fair amount of clean up. Close inspection of the gear struts in my kit reveals that there is a steel rod skeleton imbedded in all of the resin strut pieces! That is an awesome touch. I was afraid that I was going to have to do that myself; make the skeleton from steel wire, drill a channel in each strut, insert the skeleton and fill the channel and wire with some liquid resin. HPH did it for me. The real bummer (one of MANY with the kit IMHO) when it comes to this is the brass gear was a direct copy of the kit gear and the kit gear didnt fit at all OOTB. That and the fact that HpH decided that instead of making a simple brass neck piece to allow a 2nd brass section to be attached to it and make an actual cantilever gear that the T-Cat has IRL, they just decided to take that rod that went through the core of the nose gear and extended it out the bottom of the nose gear neck through the top of the tire and wheel to hold things in place. It looked like utter crap. If you can find a copy of the brass gear these days definitely use that as a starting point for a mod or possibly bending or extending the aft strut. I would say it would definitely be better than HpHs option of putting piano wire through the top of the nose gear tire. Jack and thierry laurent 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 On 4/20/2023 at 3:49 PM, Out2gtcha said: The real bummer (one of MANY with the kit IMHO) when it comes to this is the brass gear was a direct copy of the kit gear and the kit gear didnt fit at all OOTB. That and the fact that HpH decided that instead of making a simple brass neck piece to allow a 2nd brass section to be attached to it and make an actual cantilever gear that the T-Cat has IRL, they just decided to take that rod that went through the core of the nose gear and extended it out the bottom of the nose gear neck through the top of the tire and wheel to hold things in place. It looked like utter crap. If you can find a copy of the brass gear these days definitely use that as a starting point for a mod or possibly bending or extending the aft strut. I would say it would definitely be better than HpHs option of putting piano wire through the top of the nose gear tire. Since there is a steel rod through both the gear and the fork it may not be necessary. I will just see and adjust fire as necessary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted April 22, 2023 Author Share Posted April 22, 2023 Wow! 2018 we started this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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