REFLECTOR:To Gas Strut or Not

[Scott Baker]

They look the same.
The heat treated steel is more difficult to (permanently) bend.
Again - I'll try to find out the approximate date when Velocity began heat
treating the gear leg.  Most can go by that.
If not, the only sure way is to send the leg to local shop (or to us) and
have it heat treated.
Is there a metallurgist in the crowd that can offer a "home brew" means of
treating the leg?
Scott B.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Martino" <tmartino@troubleshooter.com>
To: <reflector@tvbf.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:21 PM
Subject: RE: REFLECTOR:To Gas Strut or Not


> The main question has NOT been answered.  Is there a way for owners to
> know by looking at it ... if the nose gear has been heat treated or not?
> Do they all look the same?  Are there any sure fire ways to know?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Baker [mailto:sbakr@comcast.net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 3:36 PM
> To: reflector@tvbf.org
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR:To Gas Strut or Not
>
> Tony ... your nose gear leg is heat treated.  Scott Swing once told me
> that
> untreated gear legs were the norm during the "Danny" era.  I'll try to
> find
> out the date when the change to heat treatment occurred.
> Scott B.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tony Babb" <tonybabb@alejandra.net>
> To: <reflector@tvbf.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 4:40 PM
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR:To Gas Strut or Not
>
>
> > Was there a date when this update was applied to all NGs supplied by
> the
> > factory? If not can anyone describe or better yet post a photo to help
> > identify whether the NG fork has been updated or not? How can you tell
> if
> it
> > has been heat treated?
> >
> > I'm metallurgically challenged too...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > > And make darn sure that the gear was heat treated, mine
> > > (FG) wasn't and it broke at the same point. The new one
> > > didn't have the gussets and their addition is probably an
> > > admission of the weakness at that point.
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > --- MMurp16900@aol.com wrote:
> > > > Hi Scott
> > > >  Last year we had a nose gear that failed at the pivot
> > > > bushing. I thought
> > > > everyone knows about the factory new reinforcement gusset
> > > > and improved welding.
> > > >    If you get a new fork be careful with the Goodyear
> > > > tire is wider than the
> > > > Condor and will rub on the inside of the fork.
> > > > Mack and Steve Murphree X.L.R/G
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > =====
> > > James F. Agnew
> > > Jim_Agnew_2@Yahoo.Com
> > > Tampa, FL
> > > Velocity 173 Elite Aircraft Completed & Flying
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