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Fuselage Cracking with Bungee Gear?

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Z32MadMan

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I know it is fairly common for S1's with spring gear to have cracking issues in the fuselage, if radius blocks are not used.

Does anyone know of similar issues occurring with the factory/plan bungee gear?

I am trying to gauge how paranoid I have to be on a pre-buy inspection in terms of pulling panels and inspecting the tubing down by the gear.

Trying to avoid these issues:

http://pittss1.blogspot.com/2015/04/

Cheers!
 

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