I have been following this thread on the roll pin and am grateful for the
advice. I am just in the middle of getting a new longer spindle made to
raise the nosegear for better clearance for a long prop I will be fitting.
Karl
>From: "R.C.Harrison" <ptag.dev@tiscali.co.uk>
>Reply-To: europa-list@matronics.com
>To: <europa-list@matronics.com>
>Subject: RE: Europa-List: Nose gear assembly twisted
>Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:47:42 +0100
>
>
>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!
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
>[mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Michael
>Grass
>Sent: 03 June 2006 18:35
>To: europa-list@matronics.com
>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
>
>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
>
>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
>
>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
>
>bond?
>
>
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