Cozy gear camber

[Drew]

I have sold my longez after about 750 hours of very enjoyable flying and am now into my first 5 hours of my new Cozy.

Question about the camber though.  The gear legs are Aerocad and have a pretty good camber to them (bottom edges out).  I need to measure them shortly----but my eyeball says 7 deg or more.  I don't think the camber has spread since the wheelpants fit on the leg really good.  If I shim up, I will need to do some surgery to the wheel pants.  

The question is----what is a good way to shim camber over a large number of degrees?  Looks like I will at least need around 10 deg of shim just to get back to normal.  I see 2 deg shims for sale.  Is there a good place to go to get someone to make a 10 deg shim (or whatever it comes out to be) instead of stacking 5 2-deg shims together?

Thanks,

[Drew]

ok---here is what I learned surfing around after posting.  Looks like I can get the correct camber (and toe in) with washers behind the axles.  Once I get all the correct angles, I can remove the axles and then build up a flox pad and bolt the axels on with gray tape.  Let the flox dry, remove the axels and tape, put the axles back on.

Any comments?

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Spruce and Wick sell 1 and 2 degree shims. (I think Wicks is significantly cheaper)

ALSO - If you have access to a mill, you could re mill the mounting surface of the axle with the correction.  I've done this a lot.

Waiter

[niceez]

I like Waiter's idea (removing material saves weight!).  The only problem I see  is if or when it gets sold the new owners down the road may not remember (or you) and if for what-ever reason the axle needed to be removed it has one correct way for installation and either one or three wrong ways.  I guess you could have the top  of the axle inscribed = TOP ONLY or FACE UP ONLY.

Do not rule out the the method you have posted of taking some 1/4" thick phenolic to a machinist and having him fly-cut the desired angle to include pre drilled  4 holes for the bolts.  Thinkin back to the LEZ gear it required 3 plies ob bid and flox.

Dale