On Apr 26, 3:38*pm, glider wrote:
* *I seem to recall that DG has the larger 5" wheel. I know the
mechanism on both are equally poor and like to fold when they
shouldn't. Not so bad on the DG 300 but earlier designs were prone to
collapse. Same as the LS-4. I think Dirks and Lemke were is same gear
class at the university.
GA

Yes, the DG has the larger gear (but for the record the LS-3 - and I
think the 4 as well - has rubber "donuts" that act as minor shock-
absorbers).

Both the DG-300 and LS-4 have factory mods that prevent the gear
collapse that plagued early units. Don't know what the LS "fix" is;
but on the DG it was simply a spacer and a spring to keep the gear-
handle torqued over - so its locking "tab" doesn't bounce out of the
associated notch in turbulence or upon touchdown. My DG has over 1500
hours on it, without a single gear collapse!

--Noel
(who accidentally load-tested the gear mechanism on his DG on Sunday,
keeping too much spoiler out in the flare)