Super Durable & Light Multicopter Landing Gear

PVC landing gear on a quadcopter.

When I was first starting to fly multirotors I was looking for landing gear that was durable, light, good ground clearance and would take a hard landing, cause face it: the landing gear is what takes the beating when learning to fly.  I tried a few things and came up with using PVC drainage sewer pipe.  I won't take the credit for it, I see other people have done similar things, this is just my take on it.  I think it looks nice and clean too.

You can see in the video how springy the landing gear is and my start to finish on making it.  You can form the pipe to any shape you like. 

You need:

• PVC pipe (I used 4")
• Hacksaw
• Boiling Water
• Marker
• Ruler

 Here is the process in a nutshell:

• Measure the pipe for how wide you want the landing gear
• Cut slices of the pipe
• Heat the pieces of pipe in boiling water
• Shape and bend the pipe into landing gear

PVC landing Gear on David's Tricopter

4" PVC pipe

1/2" pipe pieces cut and then cut in half.

Heating the landing gear in boiling water.

Finished landing gear, made a flat spot on the top so it would mount on the bottom of the copter booms.

Another pic of the landing gear on a tricopter, held on with zipties.

My website: http://eclectic-workshop.weebly.com/