REFLECTOR:Incident/crash

[Alexander Balic]

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I think that there is a company that makes a device similar to the gas
spring, but uses an actual spring in there instead of the nitrogen charge, I
will try to locate them, I would rather have a small "clunk" sound to
reassure me that the linkage is over center anyway...

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	reflector-admin@tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-admin@tvbf.org] 
> Sent:	Saturday, May 24, 2003 9:49 AM
> To:	reflector@tvbf.org
> Subject:	REFLECTOR:Incident/crash
> 
> 
> Having the gas spring go dead is a very high possibility.  I just replaced
> another one the other day.  This makes two in 5 years.
> 
> The gas I have went dead about 6 mo after I installed the gear system;
> long before the plane would ever fly (it still hasn't).  Using a gas
> spring there never made any sense to me.  It is guaranteed to fail, is
> difficult to replace, and the reason to use a gas cylinder (damping)
> doesn't exist here because to system is already damped by the hydraulic
> cylinder.  
> 
> I decided long ago that I would replace it with a standard spring before I
> fly, and figured by then someone else would come up with a design.  I was
> sure that someone, and presumably the factory; would have done that by
> now, and shared it with the rest of us.  Still waiting.  
> 
> Al

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