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forward, away from the gear unit, otherwise it
will rub or squash the wire when retracting.
Also we strongly recommend to grind a flat spot
in the gear pin, where the control arm is
clamped. This arm has only ONE grab screw
and this should have a flat spot. All other grab
screws will not mandatorily need a flat spot
because there are multiple ones applying a lot
of force, creating sufficient friction.
Once the gear unit is complete, it needs to be
attached to the removable gear mount.
Therefore slide the gear mount into the sleeves
of the main fuselage and check the fit. It needs
to be secured with the 2 aluminum brackets,
each with three M4 bolts. You will now see that
the gear unit is a 100 degree unit. Since it is
difficult for Electron to make this specific gear
unit (with the nose gear servo mount) retracting
100 degree, there is the only way to have it
EXTENDING to 100 degree instead. That means,
the gear unit must be angled 10 degree
upwards, resulting in a fully vertical strut when
the nose gear is down. Then the strut positions
itself in a 10 degree upward angle when
retracted, so that the nose wheel clears the gear
door.
We include two 10 degree hard wood wedges in
the hardware bag, these get glued to the gear
plate at the correct position. Then the 4
mounting holes should be drilled with 3mm dia
and the gear unit mounted with the self tapping
screws.
Make sure that the motor of the gear unit fits through the front face of the main fuselage and
clears the RC equipment board inside. There should be a few mm clearance around the motor,
that under no circumstances this motor could be hit or bent. As you see, you can slide the nose
dual carbon tube unit in and out easily and just secure it with two M4 bolts through the aluminum
angle brackets.
The green arrow above shows the pass through hole for battery wires, another one is located on
the opposite side.
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