Return-Path: Received: from pegasus.azstarnet.com ([169.197.56.194]) by truman.olsusa.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO203-101c) ID# 0-44819U2500L250S0) with ESMTP id AAA6638 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 23:44:16 -0500 Received: from rossann.olympus.net (dialup12ip024.tus.azstarnet.com [169.197.35.152]) by pegasus.azstarnet.com (8.8.5-nerd/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA01711 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 21:44:25 -0700 (MST) From: "R & A Colebrook" To: Subject: RETROFIT NOSE GEAR FOR 235 Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 21:48:18 -0700 Message-ID: <01be2265$f97e5540$9823c5a9@rossann.olympus.net> X-Mailing-List: lancair.list@olsusa.com Mime-Version: 1.0

The compulsory nose gear retrofit referred to in SB#9 of 2/15/88 was another crutch to make the original rubber donut nose gear tolerable. It diddled the Belleville washers and I believe swapped aluminum casings.

The 1K retrofit is a replacement of the whole nose gear assembly with an oleo strut like the 320 uses but not interchangable with the 320.

Suggest you contact William Bartlett (wtbart@olympus.net) before using the old rubber donut nose gear even with Lancair's free fixes. He has made it work longer than anyone else I know of. Most of us with 235s paid the 1k for the oleo strut which really does kill the problems.

Ross W. Colebrook