REFLECTOR: Nose Wheel castoring while taxiing

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Brian, 

I'm at work so I can't look it up. I do remember the specs being on site that sells the part. Perhaps you can find it there?.

Kurt 



-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Michalk <michalk at awpi.com>
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 11:59 am
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Nose Wheel castoring while taxiing


Does anyone know what the shore hardness of the new bumper is?
Alternatively, does anyone know what rake deflection we are looking for 
iven a known torque applied to the nose wheel strut?
On 3/6/2012 12:47 PM, Brian Michalk wrote:
 Since we are on the subject of the nose gear bumper:

 I already related to the group that I did more taxi testing this 
 weekend.  I have two squawks to address.

 The first is the draggy brakes, that is in a different thread.

 The second is what I think is excessive nose gear rake.  I measured 
 the angle of the gear, and it's at 6deg.  The manual calls for 2 to 4 
 deg.  The symptom is that when I make a hard turn, the wheel castors 
 to about 90deg, and with the rake, the nose drops a bit.  Then, 
 getting that wheel back in trail to taxi straight requires some power 
 and skill, because the nose must be lifted back up an inch or two to 
 get the wheel back in trail.

 Does the new bumper add any thickness?  The one I have came from the 
 RRL trainer plane, and looked fine.  My plan was to add some spacers 
 to mine to get the rake back within limits.

 Or should I even bother with this?  Right now, I have zero tension on 
 the castoring to make it easier to taxi.  This problem will get worse 
 when I tighten it up for first flight.
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