Re: [DOG mailing list] H36 undercarriage

[Nils Beck]

Not only after bad landings, but generally you should inspect the 
undercarriage brackets from time to time, as they tend to develop fine 
cracks. You may not see them when the bracket is on the table (or 
frehsly painted...),  you have to look at them when they are installed 
and put under tension by the attachment nuts.

    On 15/08/2013, at 20:42, Ian Mc Phee <mrsoar...@gmail.com
    <mailto:mrsoar...@gmail.com>> wrote:
    Friend with early Thai h36 found an undercart ball rod end broke
    after landing but zero damage luckily. He fount the Thai we
    assume used non standard ball rod ends with no untreated shank.
    The correct ball rod ends are made by hirshmann in Germany and
    have a X indicating they are high tension ball rod ends.
    Lesson you can not trust Thai airforce or was it Geoff
    Edwards??   the guy that brought them in.  When I was at Archer
    field there were broken undercarriage everywhere.
    If ball rod ends have been changed then there should be a repair
    in the floor when they have been removed.  I think I have read
    somewhere after hard broken undercart either ball rod ends are
    to be replaced or are the brackets to be replaced.  I would say
    it is ball rod ends.
    May be worth a look and always do perfect landings.
    Ian mcphee
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