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Hi Grayhawk,
I'm fast-taxiing up to 'hops', and yesterday felt nosewheel shimmy, not violent but persistent, and not related to the brakes on the mains.
Yesterday I pulled the nosewheel and checked things.
The wheel needed 1.5 oz. of lead inside the rim to balance.
The strut is ESCO.
The strut does not center- lock when the shaft is fully extended.
There seems to be adequate anti-torque -- less in the center +/- 5 degree range.
I read through the 246 Archive posts on nosewheel-shimmy, including some of yours, yesterday, and reduced the nosewheel psi form 35 to 28.
May I ask for any additional info or checks you might suggest?
Many thanks...
Terrence O'Neill aka Redhand
L235/320 N211AL
Still grappling with the fuel slowscan 201B, but am cleared to fly 40 hrs etc. in my test area.
---- Sky2high@aol.com wrote: I don't think ESCO went out of business, maybe just the business of experimental aircraft struts....
_http://www.escocorp.com/locations.html_ (http://www.escocorp.com/locations.html) Grayhawk
In a message dated 7/6/2009 7:46:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, cfi@instructor.net writes:
It's my understanding that ESCO went out of business.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Art Bertolina" <artbertolina@earthlink.net>
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] New nose strut
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:56:14 -0400
anyone know the reason for the new strut?, is it because of
the shimmy issue?.
Art
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