Thanks for your reply Dean
All,
additionally to the misaligned nose gear assembly I discovered an additional
misalignment due to the way the landing gear is mounted. I will get another
1/2 deg of a twist to the left bringing the total out of alignment to aprox.
1.5 deg. Now I wonder what others would do (or have done). After looking
into this a little further and thinking on how to correct this I came up
with 3 possible solutions.
1. Forget about it and life with the error thinking this would be within
tolerance.The plane should pull then always a little to the left.
2. Fix it by applying careful heat and separate the assembly. Clean the
adhesive off and rebond the nose gear leg back into place with everything
properly aligned. Then redrill at the rear bushing at 90 deg to the original
orientation. The front bushing could be drilled in a 45 deg orientation. The
question here would be if this would harm the integrity of the nose leg and
what adhesive to use.
3. Order a new nose gear assembly. (that would still leave the 1/2 deg off
due to the landing gear frame mounting)
I would appreciate the feedback and comments from others.
Michael Grass
A266 Trigear
Detroit
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Seitz" <daseitz@cfl.rr.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 3:55 PM
Subject: RE: Europa-List: Nose gear assembly twisted
>
> Yes, mine was very much off. It was just went the old Europa was going
> out.
> They were supposed to send me a new one. Never happened. Last year at Sun
> n
> Fun, Andy remembered it and the New Europa 04 sent me a new one no charge.
> Very nice of them to do it.
>
> Yes it is held in with two bolts and locktight. It should be straight
> vertical.
>
> Dean Seitz
> N284A Europa XS tri gear 914 Airmaster
> 92 hours so far.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
> [mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Michael Grass
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 1:35 PM
> 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.
>
>
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