TK1 Landing gear

[dgapilot]

No need to be sorry, this is exactly what I was asking for. Honestly, the flying I do and plan on doing is well within the envelope of the original gear. BUTTTT, the right gear leg has a been welded on (before I bought it) and I would like to replace it. Trying to find the gear leg needed (narrow with 1.25" axle) has proven to be pretty difficult without going the route of buying a brand new one.. And if I buy a brand new one, my thought was why not spend the extra 2k and get a better designed gear all around??

There have been a couple people that have converted from narrow to wide gear in the last couple years. I would think there should be some available used.


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[Glen Geller]

Honestly, the flying I do and plan on doing is well within the envelope of the original gear. BUTTTT, the right gear leg has a been welded on (before I bought it) and I would like to replace it. Trying to find the gear leg needed (narrow with 1.25" axle) has proven to be pretty difficult without going the route of buying a brand new one.. And if I buy a brand new one, my thought was why not spend the extra 2k and get a better designed gear all around??

Why not take the wonky gear to a certified welder and simply have it rebuilt to remove the crappy portions and put in nice fresh tubing etc?
There's only 10~20 parts to the thing, if one or two were problematic just replace them, that might be the faster/cheaper solution.
And you could have the corner web upgrades (as done in the PA22 tailwheel conversions) done at the same time.

GG