REFLECTOR: Nose gear fork

Alex Balic alex157 at direcway.com
Tue Jun 15 23:07:05 CDT 2004


3 weeks ago they told me "2 weeks" yesterday they told me "2 weeks" seems
like a lot of forks are getting replaced- probably all of them........

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]On
Behalf Of Rene Dugas
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 5:55 PM
To: Jim_Agnew_2 at yahoo.com; 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'
Subject: RE: REFLECTOR: Nose gear fork


I asked for new front gear leg and fork over a month ago.  Anyone else
getting forks in?  Still waiting.
Rene'

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Jim Agnew
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 3:15 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Nose gear fork

"The old fork was designed and thought to be up
to the task."

When designing things that can kill or injure your normal
engineering is not based on "thought", rather actual
destruction testing!  The real question is here does
guessing stop and engineering begin?

Jim

--- Scott Derrick <scott at tnstaafl.net> wrote:
> Alex,
>
> I agree and disagree.  The old fork was designed and
> thought to be up to
> the task. And from what I know many a bird is still
> flying with many hours
> on that older design.  Velocity wasn't selling something
> they thought would
> fail..  When it proved to have a weakness a new fork was
> produced and from
> the prices I've seen it is being sold for close to their
> cost as an
> upgrade.  A pretty good deal in my mind.
>
> I don't know how many airplanes you've owned, but I never
> had an AD paid
> for by the factory, ever.  I paid for them, 100%.
>
> Scott
>
> At 09:13 PM 6/14/2004, you wrote:
> >Yea, about that- a LOT of us are having to call up the
> factory and pay for
> >a properly engineered and constructed fork after paying
> already for the
> >old style, improperly engineered fork- kind of sits
> badly with me- this is
> >not like the improved stuff like toe brakes, and ball
> bearing seat rails,
> >this is an issue that should be addressed like an AD and
> paid for by the
> >factory, not us..... oh well, I am not going to start a
> pissing match over
> >it, so I will patiently wait for their machinist to get
> mine done (another
> >2 weeks I am told)
> >-----Original Message-----
>
>
> "Those who sacrifice freedom to get security, deserve
> neither."
> - Benjamin Franklin
>
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James F. Agnew
Jim_Agnew_2 at Yahoo.Com
Tampa, FL
Velocity 173 Elite Aircraft Completed & Flying
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