Installing The Optional Air Retractable Landing Gear. - advanced scale models C-130 Hercules Instruction Manual

Installing The Optional Air Retractable Landing Gear.

Step 1.
The main retractable landing gear units simply
screw in place of the supplied fixed landing
gear.
Step 2.
As mentioned earlier in the instructions, the lower
part of the front former will need to be cut away
to allow the nose wheel to retract.
The retract unit then screws to the fitted hard-
wood mounting rails.
Step 3.
The twin air tanks are secured to the formers with some
silicon adhesive. Fit a length of air hose to each air tank
before gluing them in place.
Step 4.
The retract fill valve can be installed in a convenient
place on the fuselage. The air control valve and
retract servo mount in the plywood plate in the
centre of the fuselage.
Step 5.
With the main landing gear in the extended position, make
sure that the landing gear door wire is underneath the land-
ing gear when the gear doors are in the open position.
This wire is important in that it not only opens and closes
the landing gear doors, but keep them in the open position
when the gear is extended.
Cut here.
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Nose wheel
retract unit.
Landing gear door wire.