REFLECTOR: nose gear shock dimensions

[Steve Goldman]

Pat Shea wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> It can get pretty tight in the keel with both the
> rigid and flexible hyd lines, dump valve, sequence
> valve, over-center stap, nose gear shock, etc.
> Obviously the shock moves around with the gear too. It
> takes some planning even with the nose gear linkage
> operating and watching it swing through from up above.
> Who knows, the new shock may even be a different size.
> 
> Any way you can move on with something else until your
> new nose gear shock arrives? 
> 

Now you have me worried. Ok maybe more worried since I was concerned 
about this. There is always something else to do but I was trying to 
finish up this part of the fuselage so I could contemplate joining the 
halves.

I asked the factory last week when I might expect a new shock and the 
answer was maybe a month, maybe two. That sounds like "who knows" to 
me so I was trying to come up with a safe plan to finish this section. 
I may have to reconsider that plan if a mockup shock doesn't make me 
feel pretty safe.

-- 
Steve