 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
| ||||||
|
|
|
 |
||||
|
|
|
||||
| Welcome to The FlyingGiants Community! We're all about fun, and inside you'll find the greatest, friendliest, and most helpful group of people around! If this is your first time visiting, please check out site, and click here to sign up! We hope to see you soon!! |
|
|||||||
10-04-2008, 10:19 AM
|
#1 |
|
One Nation under God.
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Age: 20
Posts: 396
|
Air-retract help!
Ok, so I'm building a Hanger 9 Spitfire (I won it in a raffle!
 ) and a friend of mine used the stock retracts with his Spitfire and has only had problems with them (calapsing, not retracting etc) So with mine I wanted to put this set of air retracts in it that I had laying around.So, the retracts are in, I hooked up all the air lines to the tank and valve (Blue Robart valve) but the valve does not keep a seal. I have to position the cylinder that goes in and out of the hexagon shapped tube directly in the middle so it keeps a seal and then I can fill the tank. When ever I go to put the retracts up or down, all the air rushes out the valve and will barley get one retract down or up. I'm guessing the O rings in the valve are bad? I have two other valves aswell, I have another Robart valve that is identical to the blue valve but it is all aluminum, and then I have a funky looking oldschool valve that is a square box that has a rod with O rings on it going in and out the aluminum box, these valves do the same thing, they do not keep a seal. help?
__________________
 I give thanks to our soldiers defending the USA, may God be with you. Last edited by Bamm-o; 10-06-2008 at 03:05 PM. |
|
|
|
10-04-2008, 06:21 PM
|
#2 |
|
If you can't HUCK it BLING IT!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Just Moved.......Hampton VA
Age: 37
Posts: 9,269
|
Re: Air-retract help!
Pics of the install and parts would help diagnose your problem
__________________
Offical Member of Team Caribou Lou "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But the U.S. ARMED FORCES don't have that problem." ...Ronald Reagan |
|
|
|
|
10-04-2008, 09:34 PM
|
#3 |
|
Bad-ass Super Contributer!
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: ont,ca,usa
Posts: 202
|
Re: Air-retract help!
so true just got done setting up my h9 corsair with a set of air nothing but probs with the factory ones
|
|
|
|
|
10-06-2008, 03:04 PM
|
#4 | ||||||||||||||||||
|
One Nation under God.
Join Date: Jan 2006
Age: 20
Posts: 396
|
Re: Air-retract help!
There isn't really to much to show. I really just believe it's the O-rings in the valve. Robart sells a rebuild kit for a whole retract setup and they include the O-rings for the valve but there is only two. I don't wanna spend 12 bucks on two tiny O-rings. I need to find what size they are and find out where to buy em? And even though these retracts are brand new, they are old. I think I bought them from a club member and he bought them in the 90s
__________________
I give thanks to our soldiers defending the USA, may God be with you. |
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
| Thread Tools | |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| RENO AIR RACES!! | SleepyC | Leading Edge Homepage Article Discussions | 30 | 09-21-2008 02:23 AM |
| IDIOTS | SmoothFlying | General Discussion | 27 | 05-27-2008 04:05 PM |
| 2007 Terre Haute Air Fair | wizard | Full Scale Huckin' | 5 | 09-17-2007 10:52 PM |
| How much air is normal in your gas line? | BuzzardChaser | Gas Engines | 6 | 04-30-2007 10:54 AM |
| ZDZ 210 is two noisy? | martin18152 | Gas Engines | 28 | 04-23-2006 07:53 PM |
