Rework on ASA "Nose-Job"

[petersb]

Recently fitted the old style, can I grind it down to the new dimensions?

That would be 1.2 inches at the apex and tappered to the ends?

[PerfTech]

Originally Posted by petersb

Recently fitted the old style, can I grind it down to the new dimensions?

That would be 1.2 inches at the apex and tappered to the ends?

If you pay the freight, I will exchange it for you. Just send me the brace only with a note and a phone number to contact you. Allan...

[roee]

Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on my fit issues.

There were several dimensions in my stock fairing that ended up on the bad side of typical. I say "typical" rather than "normal" because there appears to be a lot of variation in the dimensions of the stock fairing installation from one airplane to the next. But anyhow, the most significant dimensional variation was the fore-aft position of the fairing relative to the gear leg. In my case, the fairing was further forward than most, and therefore there was less space inside the fairing behind the gear leg to accommodate the brace.

Interestingly, that dimension on my installation actually matches very closely to that shown on Van's scale drawings, more closely than most, apparently. Back when I installed the fairing, I had to re-work the bottom leading edge for unrelated reasons, and in doing so, I made it match Van's drawing. Whereas, it seems that most folks have the fairing positioned much further aft, dictated by the shape of the bottom leading edge as it comes from Van's, which doesn't match Van's drawings, but incidentally is advantageous in making room for the Anti-Splat brace.

So, it looks like, unfortunately for me, I'll need to re-fit or replace my fairing to make it work. But it sounds like my situation is unusual, and most folks shouldn't have this problem.

I also wanted to again acknowledge and thank Allan for being very responsive and helpful in working through the problem. Excellent customer service!

[Captain Avgas]

Further to my previous post #30 on this thread I have received a "standard fairing" nose job from Anti-Splat and it fits OK inside my standard fairing. It's tight but it fits. And it was delivered very promptly.

Of course there is no way of knowing if the brace actually works, and there may be a lot of flyers out there with one who are benefitting only from the "placebo effect" (they feel good because they THINK it's working).

My attitude is that it probably can't do any harm (apart from lightening my wallet) and it MIGHT work. There's probably many hundreds of them flying now because a lot of purchasers would have retrofitted them to flying aircraft. And there doesn't seem to be any adverse feedback to date on VansAirforce. I've only heard of one nosegear failure with the brace and that was probably more of a crash than a bad landing.... so no news is good news.