claycookiemonster
Well Known Member
The Grove legs are installed and torqued. Now comes the fun part; aligning.
It strikes me that there are several chances to do this.
We can align the gear legs before any other hardware is installed, so bolt angles to the bare legs and get a sense of what we may be dealing with.
Or, we could install the axles and align them.
We could install the rest of the wheel and brake assembly and try to align the wheels themselves.
Finally, it sounds like I could just bolt all this on, and see how the wheels roll and align that.
In the context of building an airplane, shims costing less than $30 won't break the band, but how do you translate some deviation in inches from perfectly straight into an angle that a shim can correct?
And, of course, it's not just aligning the wheels to each other, we need to align them to the fuselage centerline.
It's just like my father, Dan Rosanna-Danna said...
It strikes me that there are several chances to do this.
We can align the gear legs before any other hardware is installed, so bolt angles to the bare legs and get a sense of what we may be dealing with.
Or, we could install the axles and align them.
We could install the rest of the wheel and brake assembly and try to align the wheels themselves.
Finally, it sounds like I could just bolt all this on, and see how the wheels roll and align that.
In the context of building an airplane, shims costing less than $30 won't break the band, but how do you translate some deviation in inches from perfectly straight into an angle that a shim can correct?
And, of course, it's not just aligning the wheels to each other, we need to align them to the fuselage centerline.
It's just like my father, Dan Rosanna-Danna said...