dav1111(at)cox.net
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 Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject: RV-10 Nose Wheel Safety Issue |
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I lost in flight one of the U-1024's (page 48-17) attached to the 1013C, bracket along with the mounting screw (Allen head) and lock washer. I am not sure what caused the loss but no damage occurred.
I have since drilled the heads of the two mounting screws and drilled a safety wire hole in the two 1013C's so that I can safety wire the two mounting screws to the mounting bracket and this cannot happen again. I drilled the heads in two 90 degree locations so that when I safety wire I can run the wire from either the top or bottom of the screw head and the tow bar will not sub on the safety wire while moving the airplane.
If both U-1024's had come loose and the 1013C mounting brackets had both slide back I could have suffered major damage to the nose wheel pant on landing.
My assumption is that while moving the RV-10 with the two bar the two bar pressure caused the mounting screw to back off the lock washer enough that during flight the vibration caused the screw to back out far enough to drop off the U-1024 into somebody's pasture.
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Russ Daves
Lubbock, TX
N710RV - RV-10
First flight 7/28/06
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