Hi! Michael
I can't afford such luxuries as powder coating!
No such bonding on my nose wheel yoke just the Mickey Mouse Roll pin and
the shaft only uses about 1" of penetration when there's available metal
for about 2" PLUS. This alone would have supplied more rigidity.
What makes you think the shaft is bonded into place. Whatever even if it
were bonded there's not enough shear strength in a 1/4" roll pin against
a 1/2" fine threaded castellated nut being tightened. .......and I'm not
aware of any process that welds steel to aluminium !
IMHO don't mess with your life replace the roll pin with a high tensile
bolt before next flight. Then watch for a mod!
On the alignment since the nose wheel castors I can't imagine the
alignment is worth bothering with unless you are a fanatic and notice
every time you walk round the a/c!
Regards
Bob H G-PTAG Sick Europa MKI/ Sick Jabiru 3300!
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From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Michael
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Sent: 03 June 2006 18:35
Subject: Europa-List: Nose gear assembly twisted
Hallo group,
I am just about ready to mount my nose gear. Going to some web sites to
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see what others have done I noticed that Dean Seitz's nose gear was =
twisted about 2.9 deg to the left (in direction of the flight). I =
checked mine and it is 1.0 deg twisted to the left. I wonder if some =
twist to the left is intentional and if so , how much? If not, I wonder
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what other have done in order to correct it since this is set in place =
by Europa and bonded in with what looks like loctite and secured with an
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AN bolt across.
BTW. The steel shaft in the nose wheel fork is also bonded in and only =
secured by the roll pin. I do not believe the roll pin is supposed to =
carry any load. Bob, is there any chance that your nose wheel fork =
assembly got to hot for any reason (e.g. powder coating) and voided the
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bond?
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