ORIGINAL: rhklenke
ORIGINAL: jetpilot
Seems like you have it working fine on the bench, then you install it with a ton of weight on nose and it fails after a couple of turns.
I was hoping to get Down and locked to solve it with a electric jack screw of some sort
maybe having a look at Skymasters setup will help.
could just be some shotty cylinders. they are special made for this app. cant sustitute any other ones, at least for the one on the strut.
scott
I've only seen the one detailed photo of the strut at the beginning of this thread and it doesn't show the steering cylinder very closely. It does look like something non-standard though, so I'd begin by figuring out some way to replace it with a standard BVM or like cylinder. Also, does the steerable part of the nose gear itself use ball bearings? If it doesn't, then weight on the nose is going to really increase the pressure needed to move it due to friction. That would have to be fixed too...
The Skymaster strut looks pretty simple, but Likai is a landing gear guru. I don't know who did the one for Comp-ARF...
Note below on the Skymaster one below the simple, standard cylinder and the ball-bearing supported steering yoke...
This gear is essentially the same except for a bit more scale appearing cylinder. The question is what does SkyMaster have on the other end in the fuse that works?
David S