Retain Light Wheels

Small custom-fit washers make for a simple, low-tech way to hold wheels on music-wire landing gear. It works on common on stick-and-tissue models, such as Peanut scale and sport FF designs such as Sig's Tiger. Other methods, such as bending up the wire ends “just so,” I've never been able to make work. Here's a wire landing gear, bent properly to shape and anchored onto the model's fuselage. With a pin vise, small lightweight wooden...