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frans(at)paardnatuurlijk.
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:12 pm Post subject: Trike nose wheel castor spindle and yoke failure. Eur

Karl Heindl wrote:



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		   Are you sure the fork is made of cast iron ?


	


That was the other undocumented change.  Nah, it has the same look

and feel as cast iron, and it weighs almost as much.  I was not

entirely serious. 

Nevertheless, it doesn't appear that someone tried to design it with a

high strength/weight ratio in mind.

Just compare it with the amount of material and weight of the main gear.

The main gear has an axle supported on just one end, with a leg barely

thicker than the axle itself. Now look again at the nose wheel. Weird

isn't it? It looks like the designer thought that the nose wheel was

going to do all the hard the landing work, and the main gear was just

there to prevent the plane from falling on its side after the landing. 



The whole nose wheel assembly is definitely one of the less well

developed area's of the Europa, just like the area of the cowl right

above it. It looks like the original designer worked from the tail to

the nose, and at about reaching the firewall, he just had enough of it,

and delegated the rest of the design to someone else.



-- 

Frans Veldman

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g-iani(at)ntlworld.com
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:39 am Post subject: Trike nose wheel castor spindle and yoke failure. Eur

Out of interest you may like to know that the main gear legs are the same as

used on the RV family.



On the other hand, the nose wheel (and Mono) are made by a wheel chair

manufacturer.



Just a thought



Ian Rickard G-IANI XS Trigear, 250 hours

Europa Club Mods Rep (Trigear)

e-mail mods(at)europaclub.org.uk   

   or direct g-iani(at)ntlworld.com

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