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     1. 10:29 PM - FT nose gear stop bolt  (mppalmer@aol.com)
 
 
 
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Time: 10:29:37 PM PST US
Subject: Glasair-List: FT nose gear stop bolt
From: mppalmer@aol.com


I was doing some maintenance on our FT nose gear at about 2600 hours. I 
noticed the NAS cap head bolt/screw that serves as a stop for the 
swiveling gear was loose in the aluminum fork. (The hole had elongated 
 from being whacked by the nose gear while pushing the plane backward 
into the hangar.)

In retrospect, I should have Heli-coiled the hole and simply reused the 
same NAS bolt.

Instead, I went to the hardware store and got a Grade 8 coarse thread 
cap head bolt.

Maybe it's because the threads aren't rolled, but the head snapped off 
some time later. (Where the threads ended. Inside the fork. Rats.)

Don't know if I'll be able to go back to Plan A and use the old bolt. 
Anyone been through this before and have an alternative solution for 
the stop bolt?

(Have been flying without it for a hundred hours now. Don't know that 
it's critical for safety, but would like to fix anyway.)

Thanks,

Mike Palmer <><


 

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