REFLECTOR: FW: Nose Gear Rubber Bumper

[Craig and Denise Woolston]

Some of the variation in how much weight and shimming that is required is
driven by where your captivator is drilled in your keel.  John and I have
been flying ours since September, 2008 and are having great success with it.
If you don't compress it enough then you get a lot of side to side play.  We
shimmed ours ¼ on the bottom and an 1/8 on top.  And as someone already
mentioned feeling the nose wheel spin down after takeoff is kinda funky
feeling.

 

Craig

XL-5FG Flying In Lancaster, CA

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Stockman, Bill
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 3:35 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: FW: Nose Gear Rubber Bumper

 

I used the tried and true method of sand bags and had my neighbor sit in the
front seat to compress the rubber while I attached the captivator plate.
Worked great.

 

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org on behalf of Dennis Martin
Sent: Sat 5/9/2009 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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