I have polished my Grove airfoil gear legs. I like the look but you do have to polish them every few months to keep them looking good.
Polishing the main gear legs on an RV-12 is not advisable. The polishing process would cause material removal from the surface of gear leg. These legs are heat treated aluminum and shot peened (hardened) for fatigue resistance. Any modification like this may cause an untested and/or a weakened condition in the gear leg.
Read more about the process here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_peening
Joe,
Why not use the streamline fairings for the gear LEGS, as well as the intersection fairings up top and bottom? Someone has done this and posted it but I can't readily locate it. I want to say the gear leg fairings themselves were made for an RV-4, but I could be wrong on the model. But I will say they looked fantastic!
Joe,
Why not use the streamline fairings for the gear LEGS, as well as the intersection fairings up top and bottom? Someone has done this and posted it but I can't readily locate it. I want to say the gear leg fairings themselves were made for an RV-4, but I could be wrong on the model. But I will say they looked fantastic!