After operating for almost 2 years, I've come up with a gear leg shimmy, which occurs on both main and nose gear legs. I've been experimenting with all of the usual fixes and have pretty much stopped it, but am unhappy with the close margin from using proper landing technique to which a shimmy can occur. I've decided to go ahead and install the stiffeners on all 3 legs to increase the margin. I've been documenting how each fix affected the shimmy as I've been troubleshooting, including some videos of the legs with each correction and will post a summary later, after installing the stiffeners.
From the vague directions to install, I understand that the stiffeners are epoxied to the leg, then glass wraps used to install. I had pictured this as sort of wrapping the entire wood stiffener in a sort of "ace bandage" style, covering the wood and leg with an overlapping wrap. From an earlier post, Pierre mentioned 4 single bands of wrap for the stiffener to leg. I was hoping that some who installed the stiffeners could give more detail on how they actually applied the cloth wrap, such as cloth weight, number of wraps (bands), how many layers and width of each wrap. If wrapping in bands, I was thinking carbon fiber might be better. I appreciate any input. Pictures would be even better!
From the vague directions to install, I understand that the stiffeners are epoxied to the leg, then glass wraps used to install. I had pictured this as sort of wrapping the entire wood stiffener in a sort of "ace bandage" style, covering the wood and leg with an overlapping wrap. From an earlier post, Pierre mentioned 4 single bands of wrap for the stiffener to leg. I was hoping that some who installed the stiffeners could give more detail on how they actually applied the cloth wrap, such as cloth weight, number of wraps (bands), how many layers and width of each wrap. If wrapping in bands, I was thinking carbon fiber might be better. I appreciate any input. Pictures would be even better!