REFLECTOR: Nose Gear Struts - Safety Issue

[Scott Baker]

If you sent your nose gear to Velocity, Inc. and had the company add the 
taco gusset to your gear leg - this would be considered a retro-fit/repair 
which is affected by this warning.  If factory supplied a new gear leg 
(identified by the green colored zinc chromate primer), this would not be 
affected.
SB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Dibble" <aminetech at bluefrog.com>
To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Nose Gear Struts - Safety Issue


> How do I determine if my gusset was retro-fitted?
>
> John
>
> Scott Baker wrote:
>
>> Look for Velocity, Inc. to issue a safety warning and recall of nose gear
>> struts that have been retro-fitted with the double wall "taco" style 
>> gusset.
>> This notice is in response to several recent nose gear incidents where 
>> the
>> nose strut itself has broken below the taco gusset.  The breakages 
>> occured
>> after hard landings and/or nose wheel shimmey incidents.
>> The nose gear strut supplied with the kit is heat treated.  This warning
>> does not apply to new or unaltered nose gear struts.  It applies ONLY to
>> nose gear struts that have had gusset repairs that required welding and
>> which have not been normalized and re-heat treated following the repair.
>
>
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