Yesterday I had Lasar overhaul my landing gear mechanism per the SB (Lasar's new ownership seems to be on the path to improvement and expansion, by the way) and want to reinforce what one of the posters said on a long ago thread on the subject.   His view, distilled, was that  a steel spring properly engineered and manufactured should last forever.  Replacing at 1,000 hours was silly given good engineering/manufacturing. Well, based on a single datapoint I wholeheartedly agree.  The at