REFLECTOR: FW: Nose Gear Rubber Bumper

[Dennis Martin]

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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All the best,
Dennis
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