X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:34:00 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-m15.mx.aol.com ([64.12.138.205] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTP id 1051334 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:46:07 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.12.138.205; envelope-from=Sky2high@aol.com Received: from Sky2high@aol.com by imo-m15.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r3.4.) id q.24.74874b8e (18555) for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 11:45:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Sky2high@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <24.74874b8e.30014b0a@aol.com> X-Original-Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 11:45:14 EDT Subject: Re: [LML] Re: nose gear bent-? pilot or mechanic error - LNC2 X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1120923914" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5009 X-Spam-Flag: NO -------------------------------1120923914 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gerard, Et Al Consider this: 1. When the nose gear leg is first installed, the bearings blocks are positioned between the engine mount plates and clamped so the gear is plumb and swings properly into the wheel well. 2. Two holes are then drilled thru each bearing block to ultimately secure them to the engine mount and pass thru the spacing tube (carefully cut to length to not make the bearing blocks so tight as to bind). 3. The bearing blocks should have been marked as to left/right, inside/outside and top/bottom. Since each block is drilled in place, they are unique to each airplane and to their location/position on that airplane. The two holes may be spaced equally apart but if the blocks are rotated, transposed or swapped, it is almost a guarantee that the leg will not be plumb or retract correctly. There is only one way to be correct but at least five ways to be wrong - it isn't 50/50. So, before the nose gear leg is removed for service make sure the blocks are marked so they can be replaced exactly back from whence they came and in the same orientation. If your leg was taken off, it would have been possible that the blocks did not go back to the proper place. This is the kind of problem that can occur when the builder is no longer servicing the airplane. Scott Krueger AKA Grayhawk Lancair N92EX IO320 SB 89/96 Aurora, IL (KARR) -------------------------------1120923914 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Gerard, Et Al

Consider this:

1. When the nose gear leg is first installed, the bearings blocks are=20 positioned between the engine mount plates and clamped so the gear is plumb=20= and=20 swings properly into the wheel well.

2. Two holes are then drilled thru each bearing block to ultimatel= y=20 secure them to the engine mount and pass thru the spacing tube (carefully cu= t to=20 length to not make the bearing blocks so tight as to bind).

3. The bearing blocks should have been marked as to left/right,=20 inside/outside and top/bottom. Since each block is drilled in place, t= hey=20 are unique to each airplane and to their location/position on that=20 airplane. The two holes may be spaced equally apart but if the blocks=20= are=20 rotated, transposed or swapped, it is almost a guarantee that the leg will n= ot=20 be plumb or retract correctly. There is only one way to be correct but= at=20 least five ways to be wrong - it isn't 50/50.

So, before the nose gear leg is removed for service make sure the block= s=20 are marked so they can be replaced exactly back from whence they came and in= the=20 same orientation.

If your leg was taken off, it would have been possible that the blocks=20= did=20 not go back to the proper place.

This is the kind of problem that can occur when the builder is no longe= r=20 servicing the airplane.=20

Scott Krueger=20 AKA Grayhawk
Lancair N92EX IO320 SB 89/96
Aurora, IL=20 (KARR)

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