REFLECTOR: FW: Nose Gear Rubber Bumper

[Andy Millin]

Doug,

 

Yes, I did it another way.

 

Bolt it all together; everything but the captivator plate.

 

When you are ready, rotate the nose gear fork until it is completely
backwards and the wheel is out by the nose of the aircraft.

 

This will change the moment on the gear leg significantly.

 

When you get the in airplane there will be enough mechanical advantage and
it will compress the rubber shock.  You might be able to reach in an put the
captivator plate on and finger tight the set screws.  If not, you may have
to add some more weight to the floor by the CBH.  Probably not much.

 

FWIW,

 

Andy

 

From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Dennis Martin
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 11:16 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: FW: Nose Gear Rubber Bumper

 

Jorge Bujanda suggested another way. He put like 150 or so pounds in the
nose until the gear pressed against the rubber. Anyone out there that has
done it this way? I'm ready to reinstall my captivator plate tomorrow.
Thanks for sharing your technique.

Dennis Martin
Chevy Powered 173 FG Elite

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Velocity_AZ <velocity_az at cox.net> wrote:

You want the rubber bumper to be compressed when the plane is on all 3s -
this will take the bounce out and give a more solid feel when taxiing. I
found the best way to accomplish this was to temporarily remove the
captivator plate, put some shims behind the rubber bumper, jack up the plane
(from the wing roots) which forces the nose gear against the rubber bumper
compressing it, then re-install the captivator plate. When you set the plane
back down on all 3s, the rubber bumper is under compression.

Kevin Steiner

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Stockman, Bill
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:17 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: FW: Nose Gear Rubber Bumper

One thing some of us have discovered with the new rubber bumper--it make
solid contact with the gear leg after you take off--so now you can feel if
you nose wheel is even slightly out of balance.

Bill Stockman, Senior Associate
Dayton Aerospace

(937) 369-4799 cell
(937) 426-4300 work
bill.stockman at daytonaero.com

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Tom
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 12:58 PM
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: FW: Nose Gear Rubber Bumper

Nothing came through...I & the velocity service center, installed the new
type rubber bumper yesterday. Big improvement. Tom
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