My starfire made its maiden last weekend. All went well except on its landing. the gear retracted ok..(so i thought) when it touched down the nose gear collapsed. No big deal...it used the gear door as nose stand/braking ....put a lil angle cut on the door but better the door than the nose of the fuselage.
Upon inspection the nose gear didn't lock in place when it was retracted. when i got home i started testing the retract cycle and was noticing that when the nose gear retracts it has a slight pause/bounce to it just before it locks in place. I really thought that i might have i had my steering wires a lil tight. So to test i disconnected them and still the same issue.
I noticed that the lower the pressure in the system the better it gets and with no air in the system it works just fine. I also noticed that if you hold the nose gear for a sec to let the mains come down first and then let go of nose gear it works fine also.
I though about using a wheel colloar over the tubing to restrict the mains or the nose gear to try and make it work. Will try that at lunch today.

Can someone offer a suggestion to make the nose gear SLAM down and lock......i can make a small 15 sec video of what is actually happening if need be and email it.