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In a message dated 1/12/0 9:05:40 AM, Bill Rumburg wrote:

<<What's wrong with using stainless washers as shim's (on the rod
end side of the stop), then leaving them installed? >>

Absolutely nothing, and I'm sorry my posting was unclear.  I had to make my sleeves longer on the other side, though.  When fully slid down to the bottom of the threads, the cylinder stops were too short by a substantial amount (two or three washers worth), resulting in a cylinder that would retract too far and lift the wheel up too high in the well (like, into the fuselage fillet...).  I temporarily solved the problem by putting washers on the OTHER side, which were free to slide along the extended rod since there was nothing to capture them.  I didn't want to leave these washers free to slide along an extended rod and jam up when the cylinder retracted, so I built a longer sleeve.

- Rob Wolf

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