REFLECTOR: RG nose strut pivot tube

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Kent
   Looking at the picture I see you have the Taco Gusset which is  the 
strongest Nose Gear Strut that Velocity offers at this time. It looks like a  
incredible side load issue which made me go through my Nose Wheel Lock 
Delivered  File only to find your info. My question would be What, Why, and How. 
What was  the situation to cause this? Why do you think it happened? and How 
can we  prevent this from happening again? The good news is that the strut 
was the  sacrificial part and not the bushings in the keel (which are just a 
bear to  replace). I can't believe that you had that kind of side load on a 
landing. Is  it remotely possible that the nose was still locked while 
taxing?? Can  you please elaborate on any particulars?
   After all that, Congratulations on the diagnostics  before another 
flight, without would just make life more  difficult! 
 
     Ken
 
 
In a message dated 6/12/2009 8:28:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mbuc310 at cox.net writes:

Talk  with Scott B about the heat treating the area has already received. 
If you  weld on it, it will probably need to be re-heat treated.
Matt

Kent  Murley wrote:
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>  I have one of the oldest XLRGs and my A&P is putting in another new  
> nose strut. This latest failure was a ruptured pivot tube, up away  
> from the gussets.
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> On my new strut I'm considering  welding in place a larger steel tube 
> (with cut-outs for the gusset)  outside each end of the pivot tube. We 
> could even cut out fish-mouths  to extend the tubes around the actual 
> strut, but I was wondering  about the heat treating.
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> Would it be better to weld only to  the pivot tube and gusset to try to 
> not hurt the strut's heat  treatment or would that be undone anyway 
> with heat transfer? Would  you then go ahead and weld right to the 
> strut also since it would  need to be re-heat treated.
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> Am I making re-fried beans or does  one extra heat treatment not 
> degrade it's overall strength too  much?
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> Do we normalize the whole area first and heat treat the  whole area 
> again after the fix?
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> Anyone else beef up  this area?
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> I feel sorry for Greg and anyone else outside of  north america - even 
> just three time zones away from Florida kills me  in down time.
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> Thanks,
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> Kent Murley
>  Tacoma WA
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