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                           Glasair-List Digest Archive
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Today's Message Index:
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     1. 09:50 AM - Crack in upper gear leg bracket - FT  (MPPalmer@AOL.COM)
     2. 10:13 AM - Re: Crack in upper gear leg bracket - FT  (Robin Young)
     3. 08:27 PM - Photo of hairline crack on upper gear bracket - FT  (MPPalmer@AOL.COM)
 
 
 
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Time: 09:50:47 AM PST US
From: MPPalmer@AOL.COM
Subject: Glasair-List: Crack in upper gear leg bracket - FT

--> Glasair-List message posted by: MPPalmer@aol.com

During a condition inspection, I removed the belly panel to look around and 
lube the gear leg bracket that attaches to the A rib. Noticed a hairline crack

along a weld in one of the upper attach brackets on the pilot side gear leg.  
Photo available upon request.

Part time, 2200 hrs.

Mike Palmer <><






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Time: 10:13:07 AM PST US
From: "Robin Young" <robin02@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Glasair-List: Crack in upper gear leg bracket - FT

--> Glasair-List message posted by: "Robin Young" <robin02@mindspring.com>

Mike, I too found a similar condition a few years back. Your tri gear has a
like bracket to the taildragger main gear. I found a crack in the bend of my
right gear bracket. At Sun n fun the next year, I showed the bracket to a
Glasair rep and we determined the cause to be from using a dull chrome (my
idea) instead of prime and paint.  It was thought that the process changed
the steel and weakened it. Yours is the only other case I have heard of.
Robin Young
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MPPalmer@aol.com>
Subject: Glasair-List: Crack in upper gear leg bracket - FT


> --> Glasair-List message posted by: MPPalmer@aol.com
>
> During a condition inspection, I removed the belly panel to look around
and
> lube the gear leg bracket that attaches to the A rib. Noticed a hairline
crack
> along a weld in one of the upper attach brackets on the pilot side gear
leg.
> Photo available upon request.
>
> Part time, 2200 hrs.
>
> Mike Palmer <><






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Time: 08:27:04 PM PST US
From: MPPalmer@AOL.COM
Subject: Glasair-List: Photo of hairline crack on upper gear bracket - FT

--> Glasair-List message posted by: MPPalmer@aol.com

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