Keep the landing skid rubber pads from sliding around

[mikmerl]

My landing gear rubber pads kept sliding out of position or even worse dropping off and getting lost. :arggg:

Firstly place the rubber pads within the landing gear struts so that they don’t have a tendency to go AWOL. Before you place the rear strut in place between the skid pipes cut two lengths of heat shrink tubing long enough to cover the skid pipe and the rubber pads between the landing skid struts. One each side. Reassemble the complete skid set and tighten in place on the helicopter with the skid pipes in their desired position and all components in place. Then using a hot air gun shrink down the heat shrink tubing until it firmly grips the skid pipe and forms over the rubber pads. Ensure that the rubber pads are not pulled towards each other when the tubing shrinks. Compensate for this by cutting the heat shrink tubing slightly longer.
This makes for a neat easy to keep clean installation and those rubber pads are not going anywhere. :thumbup:

[ualdrivr]

Good idea Mike, but now you can't see the Align Logo:(.

I keep mine outside the skid frames, some guys take them off all together, but then you scrape the crap out of the skids:).

Where in Athens are you Mike, you're not near JP Morgan are you? :lol: I'm from Piraeus.

[1VERTOL]

I find the stock Align ones to be junk due to the fact that they are really low profile. The bottom of my skid brackets are all ground down after several flights due to landing and vibrations on the ground. I replaced them with Raptor 50 skid stops. They look and work great.