X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:15:18 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [68.98.211.24] (HELO systems3.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2c1) with ESMTP id 2491464 for lml@lancaironline.net; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:51:18 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.98.211.24; envelope-from=cberland@systems3.net Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C82860.0E5F6CF4" Subject: [LML] Need IV Nose Gear, HELP! X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 X-Original-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:50:40 -0700 X-Original-Message-ID: <87C33F695961494D886EB3B6C8A476514015F3@s3server.Systems3.local> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [LML] Need IV Nose Gear, HELP! thread-index: Acgn67h/tlfxZjMTTJq20WFrvfchiwAc0QRA From: "Craig Berland" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C82860.0E5F6CF4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Any insights/causes/lessons on the conditions leading to the nose gear collapse?=20 =20 One thing I found on my plane was the nose gear hydraulic cylinder assembly was to long and prevented the over-center link from going to its stop. I choose to reduce the length of the rod end fitting which before modification was bottoming out in the hydraulic cylinder. This condition was never given a chance to be a problem, but... Craig Berland =20 =20 =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C82860.0E5F6CF4 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Any=20 insights/causes/lessons on the conditions leading to the nose gear = collapse?=20

One thing I found on my plane was the nose = gear=20 hydraulic cylinder assembly was to long and prevented the over-center = link from=20 going to its stop. I choose to reduce the length of the rod=20 end fitting which before modification was bottoming out in the = hydraulic=20 cylinder. This condition was never given a chance to be a problem, = but...

Craig Berland

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