BTW, I've also bent a number of replacement nose gear for buddies. It got them back flying quicker (and cheaper, I can't remember any one of them paying me for them...) and it gave me testbeds to see what different numbers of coils did.

I never really saw a great difference between 1 coil and 2 in how they flexed on impact. But 3 actually showed obvious flex on impact. Now....... I'd like to have more flex on the retract struts. They all came with one coil. But coils on a retract strut will cause the strut to lie deeper or shallower in the wing. So there isn't always a choice.

whatever.........

Glad to help.