One of our customers had this exact same failure in 2009 during ground
testing, also on the left, before the plane even flew. We sent it back
to Lancair and it was replaced.  The new part had more weld material.

Dave Saylor
AirCrafters
140 Aviation Way
Watsonville, CA 95076
831-722-9141 Shop
831-750-0284 Cell



On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Tony Moradian <tmoradia@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On my last flight after i put the gear up, the left main indicator light was
> still on.  The tower confirmed that the left main was still down.  I orbited
> overhead and put the gear handle down.  Three greens.  Confirmed by the
> tower that all three were down.  Set up for a landing with the thought in
> mind that the gear may collapse upon touch down, not knowing nor being able
> to confirm the reason for this malfuntion.  I had had several other failures
> on this and preceding this flight that were mostly electrical in nature that
> i have been battling with since 30 hours on the plane.  (Main Bus failure,
> ahrs, overvoltage etc.)  Ended up making an uneventful landing.  After
> further inspections what you see in the pictures is what i found.  To my
> knowledge, i don't know of any other Legacies that have had this failure.
> Please let me know if you know otherwise.  This looks like a bad weld to
> me!!!  All of the forces on this  weld are parallel to the way it sheared
> off the strut.  Unbelievable!!!!  Check the actuator connection to main
> strut ear on your Legacies.
>
> Tony Moradian
> Legacy L2K330
> N444HL
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