Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 22:39:52 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [206.246.194.60] (HELO visi.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b6) with ESMTP id 246876 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 07 Jul 2004 18:37:18 -0400 Received: from [69.143.133.93] (account rpastusek@htii.com HELO cp172883-b.arlngt01.va.comcast.net) by visi.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.5) with ESMTP id 11816835 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 07 Jul 2004 18:34:25 -0400 Reply-To: From: "Bob Pastusek" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" Subject: RE: [LML] 235 nose gear door X-Original-Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 18:36:10 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <034701c46472$cd5ba080$6601a8c0@cp172883-b.arlngt01.va.comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0348_01C46451.464A0080" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0348_01C46451.464A0080 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greg T wrote... I also noticed that if you have too much air in the main tires, that the tires will hit the inner gear door brackets. Greg, if your tires and wheels are fitted that closely, you may have trouble with them retracting during a normal takeoff. The tires "grow" in diameter when they are spinning, and take a bit more clearance than when they are static. Side clearance should be correspondingly increased just a bit, but a number of the -IV drivers have had to rework the door openings to accommodate the fact that the wheels/gear is also distorted just a bit by air loads and can hang up on the sides as well. Some folks tap the brakes to stop the wheels before retracting them, but there are several reasons why this is not a good idea--the principal one being that on very rare occasions, the brake pads and/or hydraulic cylinders will stick in the "brake applied" position when you do this. It makes for a nasty surprise upon the next touchdown... Bob Pastusek ------=_NextPart_000_0348_01C46451.464A0080 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Greg T wrote... I also noticed that if you have too much air = in the=20 main tires, that the tires will hit the inner gear door brackets. 
 
Greg, if your=20 tires and wheels are fitted that closely, you may have=20 trouble with them retracting during a normal takeoff. The=20 tires "grow" in diameter when they are spinning, and take a = bit more=20 clearance than when they are static. Side clearance should be = correspondingly=20 increased just a bit, but a number of the -IV drivers have had to rework = the=20 door openings to accommodate the fact that the wheels/gear is also = distorted=20 just a bit by air loads and can hang up on the sides as well.=20
 
Some folks=20 tap the brakes to stop the wheels before retracting them, but there are = several=20 reasons why this is not a good idea--the principal one being that on = very rare=20 occasions, the brake pads and/or hydraulic cylinders will stick=20 in the "brake applied" position when you do this. It = makes for a=20 nasty surprise upon the next touchdown... 
 
Bob=20 Pastusek
 
 
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