On 4 Jan 2005 15:55:44 -0800, "flybynightkarmarepair"
wrote:

At the risk of acting like a Troll, I'll responde to this: Stealth
Pilot {who can't seem to take a joke, even when it's pretty blatent}
ASKED for the tube thicknesses, among other things, like:

"is the centre component of the gear leg a tube or a rod?"

It is a tube, wall thickness .303, and runs all the way from the top of
the A-frame to the axle attachment in one piece. I'll check the
diameters (which are admittedly about all the sketch has) when I get
back home.

Has anybody else offered this contentious Australian ANY information?

Perhaps he could ask these questions of the current plans distributor -
http://www.homebuilt.org/kits/elkund/elkund2.html

Or any of these people with completed or under construction airplanes:
http://www.t18.net/ambassadors.htm http://www.t18.net/links.htm
http://www.homebuilt.org/directory/eklund.html

Instead, he choses to ask a group known for a very low signal to noise
level, and then complains when he doesn't get EXACTLY what he wants.
Sheesh.

I have subscribed to this newsgroup over 10 years. Havent complained
once.
I just inferrred that your post was stupid.

the purpose was to apply some modern engineering computational method
to prediction of the gear deflections. something which pazmany and
thurston's methods dont seem to get quite right.
the only way that these computations can be made is with actual gear
dimensions. not hearsay, not guesses, not text book sketches.
when I finally managed to borrow a set of drawings after months of
just missing the owner on the airfield. the exact drawing I needed
wasnt there.

I thought I posted a quite reasonable question.
Stealth Pilot