I have not heard of any Diehl actually collapsing at the firewall attach point. If it did I feel you have more to worry about than the nose gear. The Diehl nose gear is designed to collapse in the event of a hard landing at the forward most downward bend of the strut just above the wheel fork. Diehl designed this in to protect the firewall from being ripped out in the event of a hard Landing. I was not aware of that until after Joe Horton folded his under and I panicked and welded a support brace in that bend because I thought it was a weak point. As soon as the photo of that brace was put on my web site I received a phone call explaining that I had made a mistake and would now possibly rip my firewall out if I ever made an off field landing that was compromising. If I were you I would leave it as designed so it will do it's job when called upon.
Mark Jones Sent from my iPhone 6 > On Dec 3, 2014, at 12:17 PM, ppaulvsk <ppaulvsk at aol.com> wrote: > > I'm using Diehl nose gear design. I just heard of nose gears collapsing at > the firewall on hard landings. > > Paul Visk > Belleville Il > 618 406 4705 > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S?4 > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Mark Jones <flykr2s at charter.net> > Date: 12/03/2014 12:07 PM (GMT-06:00) > To: ppaulvsk <ppaulvsk at aol.com>,KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> > Subject: Re: KR> Firewall beef up for nise gear > > > Paul, > Are you using the Diehl nose gear? If so why do you feel the need to beef up > the firewall? > > Mark Jones > > Sent from my iPhone 6 > > > On Dec 3, 2014, at 9:15 AM, ppaulvsk via KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> > > wrote: > > > > I'm looking at ideas for beefing up my firewall for my nose gear. > > One that looks interesting is a piece of extrusion from the nose gear > > attach point to the main spare. > > Any other ideas? > > > > Paul Visk > > Belleville Il > > 618 406 4705 > > > > > > > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S?4 > > _______________________________________________ > > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > > options
