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Update on crack in Glasair FT inboard strut attach bracket

 
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PostPosted: Sun May 21, 2006 10:23 pm    Post subject: Update on crack in Glasair FT inboard strut attach bracket Reply with quote

Remember last year, when I posted a photo of a hairline crack in our Glasair
FT gear bracket? I stop drilled the crack, which seems to have worked for the
year, but decided to fix the crack this year.

When I pulled the bracket (not as easy as it sounds), I found bent ears.
Hmmm... could this be why the cracks? But what bent the ears? Is there a design
flaw in the Glasair FT design? Could your brackets be next?

You can read (and see) all the gory details at

www.members.cox.net/mppalmer

Lots of pictures. Would appreciate any theories. Cliff (Faber) says it's the
first example of cracking there he's seen. (That was as of last year.)

Mike Palmer <><


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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2006 3:50 am    Post subject: Update on crack in Glasair FT inboard strut attach bracket Reply with quote

When I pulled the bracket (not as easy as it sounds), I found bent ears.
Hmmm... could this be why the cracks? But what bent the ears? Is there a
design
flaw in the Glasair FT design? Could your brackets be next?

Mike Palmer <><

Mike, I too tore the brackets on my TD. Stoddard Hamilton looked at them and
said it was due to the plating that I had done. This made sense to me and
the new gear and brackets have held up nicely. Robin Young 286YM


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