REFLECTOR: Fitting a New Nose Gear Bumper

[Brian Michalk]

 From the manual, I see that the drill location for the nose gear bolt 
is 2-1/8" aft of the canard bulkhead.
What is the diameter of the strut?  Perhaps someone could measure their 
strut-to-CB distance for me?

If I get a rubber block that is too soft, the strut will impact the 
canard bulkhead.  If I get one that is too hard, what happens?  Will the 
strut break on landing?  I have the equations to calculate the hardness 
needed, but I don't know what the desired deflection is.  Maybe I'm over 
engineering this, and the original engineering was just a SWAG anyway?

Someone mentioned using a block of urethane.  That would seem to be a 
very hard material.