Landing gear weight

[Esser]

Cabane gear is a couple pounds lighter than the Grove (Grove is close to 40lbs I think) but slower. I have a 914 powered Model 7 with a lithium battery, constant speed prop and when I did the weight and balance on 26" tires it came to 878. I have a new project I'm slowing picking on and my goal is under 800lbs and I'm going pretty extreme on the plane's diet to get there. Not to say it isn't possible but just to be realistic, you need to be conscious about saving weight everywhere you can.

[fastfred]

Can you share the list of what you end up doing to it? Hopefully the FAA with boost the gross weight up petty soon for the LSA and won't be an issue for me. I rarely would ever get myself in afield short enough to have a problem. Why do you need it so light with all that power ?You must be off in 150 feet most days?

[RV6flyer]

Cabane gear is a couple pounds lighter than the Grove (Grove is close to 40lbs I think) but slower. I have a 914 powered Model 7 with a lithium battery, constant speed prop and when I did the weight and balance on 26" tires it came to 878. I have a new project I'm slowing picking on and my goal is under 800lbs and I'm going pretty extreme on the plane's diet to get there. Not to say it isn't possible but just to be realistic, you need to be conscious about saving weight everywhere you can.

Josh,

I am building a 5 with a 914/Airmaster. Do have a weight & Balance that you could share with me? What tailwheel do you have?

[Delta Whisky]

I've captured reported weights for some time now and as of now my very limited data base shows:

						w/o outliers						w/o outliers
Model		KF4		KF5		KF5		KF6		SS7		SS7
average		676		841		820		906		836		827
Max		793		1,013		890		906		963		878
min		560		777		777		906		736		763
sigma		76		69		35		0		56		33
count		5		9		8		1		19		16
The columns labels "w/o outliers" represent me taking out variants caused by what could be "scale dreaming" and heavy engine choices but still only makes a 9 pound difference for the SS7.
BTW - when I converted to TK-1 shocks (only, not their gear) it cost 8 pounds.