Poll - RV10 landing gear weldment cracks SL00033

Bill.Peyton

Well Known Member

• Aug 18, 2021

• #1

I am curious how prevalent cracking of the landing gear mounts exists in the fleet. I have entered 1 on behalf of the Vans company aircraft called out in the service letter

 

Last edited: Aug 18, 2021

ScottSchmidt

Well Known Member

• Aug 19, 2021

• #2

Can you add a “no cracking” choice to see how prevalent it is?

 

Bill.Peyton

Well Known Member

• Aug 19, 2021

• #3

I can’t see how to do that. I also thought of that this morning.



Moderator: If you want to close the poll and thread and repost the survey with the additional option

 

Last edited: Aug 19, 2021

cderk

Well Known Member

• Aug 19, 2021

• #4

Alternatively, maybe you can get the feedback from van’s… i think they have already asked this question to all -10 builders. Not sure if they would share the data or not.

 

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Tom Delaney

Well Known Member

• Aug 19, 2021

• #5

Oops!

Sorry, I misread and chose the “less than 750, no grass” option. I have not had any problem.

 

Bill.Peyton

Well Known Member

• Aug 19, 2021

• #6

cderk said:

Alternatively, maybe you can get the feedback from van’s… i think they have already asked this question to all -10 builders. Not sure if they would share the data or not.

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Good idea. I’ll give them a call, or alternatively, they could respond to this thread and post the data

 

Bill.Peyton

Well Known Member

• Aug 19, 2021

• #7

So I did speak with Kevin at Vans builder support.



In his words, extremely rare to see cracking. If flown off off hard surface, probably never happen.



He did not have the number of replacement weldments that have been sold.