Nose Gear for Tri-Qs


Tony Warnock
 

Hello Everyone!

 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.

Tony


Richard Thomson
 

Hi Tony,

Is that you are selling these WITHOUT being heat treated ?

Regards

Rich T.

On 28/01/2021 04:54, Tony Warnock via groups.io wrote:

Hello Everyone!

 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.

Tony


Tony Warnock
 

Hi Richard,

The gear legs absolutely have to be heat treated! But, for people that have the old style gear legs and want to retro fit the new heavier duty gear leg, they will have to match drill the firewall holes. This is much easier to do prior to heat treating. Once the new leg has been drilled and fit, it has to be heat treated. For those who are working a new build or a new Tri-Q conversion, the firewall holes will be pre-drilled and heat treated prior to me sending them out.

Tony


On Jan 28, 2021, at 2:12 AM, Richard Thomson <richard@...> wrote:

Hi Tony,

Is that you are selling these WITHOUT being heat treated ?

Regards

Rich T.

On 28/01/2021 04:54, Tony Warnock via groups.io wrote:
Hello Everyone!

 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.

Tony


Richard Thomson
 

Thanks Tony

    OK although a decent drill will manage the hardened plate without any difficulty, mine came blank and fully heat treated from Scott all those years back.

    The cost of heat treatment these days is quite high for just a single leg.

    Rich T

On 28/01/2021 12:19, Tony Warnock via groups.io wrote:

Hi Richard,

The gear legs absolutely have to be heat treated! But, for people that have the old style gear legs and want to retro fit the new heavier duty gear leg, they will have to match drill the firewall holes. This is much easier to do prior to heat treating. Once the new leg has been drilled and fit, it has to be heat treated. For those who are working a new build or a new Tri-Q conversion, the firewall holes will be pre-drilled and heat treated prior to me sending them out.

Tony


On Jan 28, 2021, at 2:12 AM, Richard Thomson <richard@...> wrote:

Hi Tony,

Is that you are selling these WITHOUT being heat treated ?

Regards

Rich T.

On 28/01/2021 04:54, Tony Warnock via groups.io wrote:
Hello Everyone!

 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.

Tony


Tony Warnock
 

Yes, working with several places locally to get the the lowest prices I can. However unless you are doing bulk orders or are willing to wait for other people needing the same treatment........it’s not cheap!!


On Jan 28, 2021, at 7:21 AM, Richard Thomson <richard@...> wrote:



Thanks Tony

    OK although a decent drill will manage the hardened plate without any difficulty, mine came blank and fully heat treated from Scott all those years back.

    The cost of heat treatment these days is quite high for just a single leg.

    Rich T

On 28/01/2021 12:19, Tony Warnock via groups.io wrote:
Hi Richard,

The gear legs absolutely have to be heat treated! But, for people that have the old style gear legs and want to retro fit the new heavier duty gear leg, they will have to match drill the firewall holes. This is much easier to do prior to heat treating. Once the new leg has been drilled and fit, it has to be heat treated. For those who are working a new build or a new Tri-Q conversion, the firewall holes will be pre-drilled and heat treated prior to me sending them out.

Tony


On Jan 28, 2021, at 2:12 AM, Richard Thomson <richard@...> wrote:

Hi Tony,

Is that you are selling these WITHOUT being heat treated ?

Regards

Rich T.

On 28/01/2021 04:54, Tony Warnock via groups.io wrote:
Hello Everyone!

 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.

Tony


britmcman99
 

What Rockwell hardness?



On Jan 28, 2021, at 5:41 AM, Tony Warnock via groups.io <tony.warnock@...> wrote:

Yes, working with several places locally to get the the lowest prices I can. However unless you are doing bulk orders or are willing to wait for other people needing the same treatment........it’s not cheap!!


On Jan 28, 2021, at 7:21 AM, Richard Thomson <richard@...> wrote:



Thanks Tony

    OK although a decent drill will manage the hardened plate without any difficulty, mine came blank and fully heat treated from Scott all those years back.

    The cost of heat treatment these days is quite high for just a single leg.

    Rich T

On 28/01/2021 12:19, Tony Warnock via groups.io wrote:
Hi Richard,

The gear legs absolutely have to be heat treated! But, for people that have the old style gear legs and want to retro fit the new heavier duty gear leg, they will have to match drill the firewall holes. This is much easier to do prior to heat treating. Once the new leg has been drilled and fit, it has to be heat treated. For those who are working a new build or a new Tri-Q conversion, the firewall holes will be pre-drilled and heat treated prior to me sending them out.

Tony


On Jan 28, 2021, at 2:12 AM, Richard Thomson <richard@...> wrote:

Hi Tony,

Is that you are selling these WITHOUT being heat treated ?

Regards

Rich T.

On 28/01/2021 04:54, Tony Warnock via groups.io wrote:
Hello Everyone!

 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.

Tony


Tony Warnock
 

Rockwell 43 Phil.


On Jan 28, 2021, at 7:23 PM, Phil Lankford via groups.io <britmcman@...> wrote:

What Rockwell hardness?



On Jan 28, 2021, at 5:41 AM, Tony Warnock via groups.io <tony.warnock@...> wrote:

Yes, working with several places locally to get the the lowest prices I can. However unless you are doing bulk orders or are willing to wait for other people needing the same treatment........it’s not cheap!!


On Jan 28, 2021, at 7:21 AM, Richard Thomson <richard@...> wrote:



Thanks Tony

    OK although a decent drill will manage the hardened plate without any difficulty, mine came blank and fully heat treated from Scott all those years back.

    The cost of heat treatment these days is quite high for just a single leg.

    Rich T

On 28/01/2021 12:19, Tony Warnock via groups.io wrote:
Hi Richard,

The gear legs absolutely have to be heat treated! But, for people that have the old style gear legs and want to retro fit the new heavier duty gear leg, they will have to match drill the firewall holes. This is much easier to do prior to heat treating. Once the new leg has been drilled and fit, it has to be heat treated. For those who are working a new build or a new Tri-Q conversion, the firewall holes will be pre-drilled and heat treated prior to me sending them out.

Tony


On Jan 28, 2021, at 2:12 AM, Richard Thomson <richard@...> wrote:

Hi Tony,

Is that you are selling these WITHOUT being heat treated ?

Regards

Rich T.

On 28/01/2021 04:54, Tony Warnock via groups.io wrote:
Hello Everyone!

 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.

Tony


Bruce Crain
 

Make sure you have the correct angle with respect to the bottom front of the gear being further forward  at the bottom.  Otherwise it will shimmy
Bruce


---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock@...>
To: "main@q-list.groups.io" <main@q-list.groups.io>
Subject: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:54:00 +0000 (UTC)

Hello Everyone!
 
 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.
 
Tony



ryan goodman
 

I also have a few of these in fabrication. Got tired of waiting. They'll be ready shortly. V


On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 9:12 PM, Bruce Crain
<jcrain2@...> wrote:
Make sure you have the correct angle with respect to the bottom front of the gear being further forward  at the bottom.  Otherwise it will shimmy
Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock@...>
To: "main@q-list.groups.io" <main@q-list.groups.io>
Subject: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:54:00 +0000 (UTC)

Hello Everyone!
 
 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.
 
Tony



Tony Warnock
 

Bruce,

 These are being fabricated from the updated fixtures designed by Scott after multiple failures of the original nose gear. If there are updates that need to be made to the newer style legs that reduce shimmy, please advise.

Tony


On Jan 28, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:


Make sure you have the correct angle with respect to the bottom front of the gear being further forward  at the bottom.  Otherwise it will shimmy
Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock@...>
To: "main@q-list.groups.io" <main@q-list.groups.io>
Subject: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:54:00 +0000 (UTC)

Hello Everyone!
 
 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.
 
Tony



John Lewis
 

Greetings, 

Someone asked about heat treating the nose gear.  It is definitely needed.  4140 can be heat treated as hard as RC50, but I feel it is too brittle at that hardness for spring gear.  Aviation tubing is sold as 4140 HT and called pre-hard at RC30.  To take care of welding stress and get most of the strength in 4140, a conservative heat treat is to specify RC 25-32 and double draw for better toughness.   

John 


Bruce Crain
 

If you have the fixture from Scott you should be good.  He built about 10 gears for me around 2004 and they worked great!  Glad you are making the nose gears!  The main gears are perhaps a bit easier to find although I don't know who to source for them.  Any idea?
Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock@...>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:58:55 -0600

Bruce,

 
 These are being fabricated from the updated fixtures designed by Scott after multiple failures of the original nose gear. If there are updates that need to be made to the newer style legs that reduce shimmy, please advise.
 
Tony

 

On Jan 28, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:

Make sure you have the correct angle with respect to the bottom front of the gear being further forward  at the bottom.  Otherwise it will shimmy
Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock@...>
To: "main@q-list.groups.io" <main@q-list.groups.io>
Subject: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:54:00 +0000 (UTC)

 

Hello Everyone!
 
 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.
 
Tony





Richard Kaczmarek 3RD
 

Tony is going to be the source for all the parts. He is the canard guy that has taken all that over from our shop.

Richard 

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 8:57 AM Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:
If you have the fixture from Scott you should be good.  He built about 10 gears for me around 2004 and they worked great!  Glad you are making the nose gears!  The main gears are perhaps a bit easier to find although I don't know who to source for them.  Any idea?
Bruce
---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock=yahoo.com@groups.io>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:58:55 -0600

Bruce,

 
 These are being fabricated from the updated fixtures designed by Scott after multiple failures of the original nose gear. If there are updates that need to be made to the newer style legs that reduce shimmy, please advise.
 
Tony

 

On Jan 28, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:

Make sure you have the correct angle with respect to the bottom front of the gear being further forward  at the bottom.  Otherwise it will shimmy
Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock=yahoo.com@groups.io>
To: "main@q-list.groups.io" <main@q-list.groups.io>
Subject: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:54:00 +0000 (UTC)

 

Hello Everyone!
 
 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.
 
Tony





Bruce Crain
 

Welcome aboard Tony!  Where do you live?
Bruce


---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Richard Kaczmarek 3RD" <fastlittleairplanes@...>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 09:02:03 -0500

Tony is going to be the source for all the parts. He is the canard guy that has taken all that over from our shop.
 
Richard 

 

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 8:57 AM Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:
If you have the fixture from Scott you should be good.  He built about 10 gears for me around 2004 and they worked great!  Glad you are making the nose gears!  The main gears are perhaps a bit easier to find although I don't know who to source for them.  Any idea?
Bruce
---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock=yahoo.com@groups.io>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:58:55 -0600

Bruce,

 
 These are being fabricated from the updated fixtures designed by Scott after multiple failures of the original nose gear. If there are updates that need to be made to the newer style legs that reduce shimmy, please advise.
 
Tony

 

On Jan 28, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:

Make sure you have the correct angle with respect to the bottom front of the gear being further forward  at the bottom.  Otherwise it will shimmy
Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock=yahoo.com@groups.io>
To: "main@q-list.groups.io" <main@q-list.groups.io>
Subject: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:54:00 +0000 (UTC)

 

Hello Everyone!
 
 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.
 
Tony







Tony Warnock
 

Bruce, I’m based in Mobile AL. I am still active duty in the U. S. Coast Guard so at this point I am not a business. I am just a guy that didn’t want to see these awesome little planes loose complete support. I was hesitant to take this on in the beginning due to personal bandwidth and my erratic deployment schedule. I have remained in the shadows to learn and gain experience with airplanes before reaching out to the community as a vendor. However seeing the email traffic and need for parts I am trying to get set up sooner than initially planned for high demand parts. First step was nose gear being that it seemed to be a hot topic. I will keep the group informed as we get the tooling set up and workable. 


On Jan 29, 2021, at 8:15 AM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:


Welcome aboard Tony!  Where do you live?
Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Richard Kaczmarek 3RD" <fastlittleairplanes@...>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 09:02:03 -0500

Tony is going to be the source for all the parts. He is the canard guy that has taken all that over from our shop.
 
Richard 

 

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 8:57 AM Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:
If you have the fixture from Scott you should be good.  He built about 10 gears for me around 2004 and they worked great!  Glad you are making the nose gears!  The main gears are perhaps a bit easier to find although I don't know who to source for them.  Any idea?
Bruce
---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock=yahoo.com@groups.io>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:58:55 -0600

Bruce,

 
 These are being fabricated from the updated fixtures designed by Scott after multiple failures of the original nose gear. If there are updates that need to be made to the newer style legs that reduce shimmy, please advise.
 
Tony

 

On Jan 28, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:

Make sure you have the correct angle with respect to the bottom front of the gear being further forward  at the bottom.  Otherwise it will shimmy
Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock=yahoo.com@groups.io>
To: "main@q-list.groups.io" <main@q-list.groups.io>
Subject: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:54:00 +0000 (UTC)

 

Hello Everyone!
 
 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.
 
Tony







Jay Scheevel
 

Thanks for your efforts, Tony. Even if we don’t need parts right away, the entire group is here to support you. It’s a team effort after 30+ years of people pitching in.

 

Here is some information for you to consider wrt the nose gear, should you want to make some changes. One of our group members, Imraan, is a aero-engineering professor at Oklahoma State. When he was starting his career, he was in Maryland and bought a Tri-Q200. He used his plane to do instrumented drop tests of the gear, and also did a full finite-element based numerical stress workup of loads on the nose gear. He evaluated the shimmy limiting factors too. He published this study and was kind enough to give me a copy of his paper. I will summarize some of the key points as to how they may relate to any improvements you may decide to make. Imraan monitors the group and he can correct me or embellish as needed. I am also attaching a useful paper on shimmy analysis of a castering nose wheel. I have a couple more papers if you are interested.

 

Imraan found that the maximum stress on the nose gear occurs in the tight bend near where the nose fork pivot slides onto the gear. This is not surprising, but understanding this reveals two facts: 1That location is the most likely failure point (buckling the back side of the tube near the fork) and 2. Whenever the gear leg is loaded It flexes and reduces the forward rake angle (making it more likely to shimmy).

 

Below is a key figure from his paper showing stress magnitude color coded to reveal the highly stressed areas when loaded. Warmer colors are higher stress (note the location of the red area, which is the highest stress). The practical demonstration of pushing the leg stress far enough for failure was demonstrated by the guy who bought Earnest Martin’s Tri-Q200. He apparently slammed it into the ground hard enough to break off the fork, right where Imraan’s stress analysis showed it would break.

 

I notice when I am heavy on the brakes and get down below about 40 mph, mine starts to shimmy also. Probably because, the increased nose down load is pushing it into the unstable zone and/or that same load is flexing the bend enough to reduce the rake (also pushing it into the unstable zone). When I let off the brakes, the shimmy goes away (but so does the pavement on my short runway, so I really have no choice).

 

If I were to recommend a change to the leg. I would recommend placing a gusset in the tightest part of the bend on the leg (near the fork on the trailing side), in order to more evenly distribute the stress to the rest of the gear leg. This should making the tight bend less prone to failure and less likely to flex and reduce the forward rake of the pivot.  

 

Not sure how this would influence the stiffness/springiness of the gear (already too springy!), but maybe Imraan can chime in on that.

 

Cheers,

Jay

 

 

 

From: main@Q-List.groups.io <main@Q-List.groups.io> On Behalf Of Tony Warnock via groups.io
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 8:44 AM
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs

 

Bruce, I’m based in Mobile AL. I am still active duty in the U. S. Coast Guard so at this point I am not a business. I am just a guy that didn’t want to see these awesome little planes loose complete support. I was hesitant to take this on in the beginning due to personal bandwidth and my erratic deployment schedule. I have remained in the shadows to learn and gain experience with airplanes before reaching out to the community as a vendor. However seeing the email traffic and need for parts I am trying to get set up sooner than initially planned for high demand parts. First step was nose gear being that it seemed to be a hot topic. I will keep the group informed as we get the tooling set up and workable. 

 



On Jan 29, 2021, at 8:15 AM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:



Welcome aboard Tony!  Where do you live?

Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Richard Kaczmarek 3RD" <fastlittleairplanes@...>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 09:02:03 -0500

Tony is going to be the source for all the parts. He is the canard guy that has taken all that over from our shop.

 

Richard 

 

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 8:57 AM Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:

If you have the fixture from Scott you should be good.  He built about 10 gears for me around 2004 and they worked great!  Glad you are making the nose gears!  The main gears are perhaps a bit easier to find although I don't know who to source for them.  Any idea?

Bruce
---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock=yahoo.com@groups.io>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:58:55 -0600

Bruce,

 

 These are being fabricated from the updated fixtures designed by Scott after multiple failures of the original nose gear. If there are updates that need to be made to the newer style legs that reduce shimmy, please advise.

 

Tony

 

 

On Jan 28, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:

Make sure you have the correct angle with respect to the bottom front of the gear being further forward  at the bottom.  Otherwise it will shimmy

Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock=yahoo.com@groups.io>
To: "main@q-list.groups.io" <main@q-list.groups.io>
Subject: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:54:00 +0000 (UTC)

 

Hello Everyone!

 

 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.

 

Tony

 

 

 


Bruce Crain
 

Way to go Ryan!  I have no idea how the gear it treated to get the correct Rockwell #.  Can you give us a little primmer?
Bruce


On Jan 29, 2021, at 7:57 AM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:


If you have the fixture from Scott you should be good.  He built about 10 gears for me around 2004 and they worked great!  Glad you are making the nose gears!  The main gears are perhaps a bit easier to find although I don't know who to source for them.  Any idea?
Bruce
---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock@...>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:58:55 -0600

Bruce,

 
 These are being fabricated from the updated fixtures designed by Scott after multiple failures of the original nose gear. If there are updates that need to be made to the newer style legs that reduce shimmy, please advise.
 
Tony

 

On Jan 28, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:

Make sure you have the correct angle with respect to the bottom front of the gear being further forward  at the bottom.  Otherwise it will shimmy
Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock@...>
To: "main@q-list.groups.io" <main@q-list.groups.io>
Subject: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:54:00 +0000 (UTC)

 

Hello Everyone!
 
 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.
 
Tony







ryan goodman
 

Tony, glad to see you are up and running. Thanks for taking this on. Do you have a price you're asking for the nose gears or is that still being worked out. I have a couple being made for me right now custom. But I could want a bulkhead ready spare of the known proper spec now that you're making them.
        Ryan


On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 3:56 PM, Bruce Crain
<jcrain2@...> wrote:
Way to go Ryan!  I have no idea how the gear it treated to get the correct Rockwell #.  Can you give us a little primmer?
Bruce


On Jan 29, 2021, at 7:57 AM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:


If you have the fixture from Scott you should be good.  He built about 10 gears for me around 2004 and they worked great!  Glad you are making the nose gears!  The main gears are perhaps a bit easier to find although I don't know who to source for them.  Any idea?
Bruce
---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock@...>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:58:55 -0600

Bruce,

 
 These are being fabricated from the updated fixtures designed by Scott after multiple failures of the original nose gear. If there are updates that need to be made to the newer style legs that reduce shimmy, please advise.
 
Tony

 

On Jan 28, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:

Make sure you have the correct angle with respect to the bottom front of the gear being further forward  at the bottom.  Otherwise it will shimmy
Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock@...>
To: "main@q-list.groups.io" <main@q-list.groups.io>
Subject: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:54:00 +0000 (UTC)

 

Hello Everyone!
 
 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.
 
Tony







Tony Warnock
 

Jay thanks for the great write up!! This is very informative and I would love to see the rest of the studies/papers Imraan shared with you!! There is always room for improvement and shimmy is a big issue with these gear especially on the Velocities. The angle of the vertical section of the gear is critical and in working on several Velocities we found that a degree or two of difference could mean the difference in shimmy or no shimmy. Great discussion and thank you again for the info!!

Tony


On Jan 29, 2021, at 12:18 PM, Jay Scheevel <jay@...> wrote:



Thanks for your efforts, Tony. Even if we don’t need parts right away, the entire group is here to support you. It’s a team effort after 30+ years of people pitching in.

 

Here is some information for you to consider wrt the nose gear, should you want to make some changes. One of our group members, Imraan, is a aero-engineering professor at Oklahoma State. When he was starting his career, he was in Maryland and bought a Tri-Q200. He used his plane to do instrumented drop tests of the gear, and also did a full finite-element based numerical stress workup of loads on the nose gear. He evaluated the shimmy limiting factors too. He published this study and was kind enough to give me a copy of his paper. I will summarize some of the key points as to how they may relate to any improvements you may decide to make. Imraan monitors the group and he can correct me or embellish as needed. I am also attaching a useful paper on shimmy analysis of a castering nose wheel. I have a couple more papers if you are interested.

 

Imraan found that the maximum stress on the nose gear occurs in the tight bend near where the nose fork pivot slides onto the gear. This is not surprising, but understanding this reveals two facts: 1That location is the most likely failure point (buckling the back side of the tube near the fork) and 2. Whenever the gear leg is loaded It flexes and reduces the forward rake angle (making it more likely to shimmy).

 

Below is a key figure from his paper showing stress magnitude color coded to reveal the highly stressed areas when loaded. Warmer colors are higher stress (note the location of the red area, which is the highest stress). The practical demonstration of pushing the leg stress far enough for failure was demonstrated by the guy who bought Earnest Martin’s Tri-Q200. He apparently slammed it into the ground hard enough to break off the fork, right where Imraan’s stress analysis showed it would break.

 

I notice when I am heavy on the brakes and get down below about 40 mph, mine starts to shimmy also. Probably because, the increased nose down load is pushing it into the unstable zone and/or that same load is flexing the bend enough to reduce the rake (also pushing it into the unstable zone). When I let off the brakes, the shimmy goes away (but so does the pavement on my short runway, so I really have no choice).

 

If I were to recommend a change to the leg. I would recommend placing a gusset in the tightest part of the bend on the leg (near the fork on the trailing side), in order to more evenly distribute the stress to the rest of the gear leg. This should making the tight bend less prone to failure and less likely to flex and reduce the forward rake of the pivot.  

 

Not sure how this would influence the stiffness/springiness of the gear (already too springy!), but maybe Imraan can chime in on that.

 

Cheers,

Jay

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From: main@Q-List.groups.io <main@Q-List.groups.io> On Behalf Of Tony Warnock via groups.io
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 8:44 AM
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs

 

Bruce, I’m based in Mobile AL. I am still active duty in the U. S. Coast Guard so at this point I am not a business. I am just a guy that didn’t want to see these awesome little planes loose complete support. I was hesitant to take this on in the beginning due to personal bandwidth and my erratic deployment schedule. I have remained in the shadows to learn and gain experience with airplanes before reaching out to the community as a vendor. However seeing the email traffic and need for parts I am trying to get set up sooner than initially planned for high demand parts. First step was nose gear being that it seemed to be a hot topic. I will keep the group informed as we get the tooling set up and workable. 

 



On Jan 29, 2021, at 8:15 AM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:



Welcome aboard Tony!  Where do you live?

Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Richard Kaczmarek 3RD" <fastlittleairplanes@...>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 09:02:03 -0500

Tony is going to be the source for all the parts. He is the canard guy that has taken all that over from our shop.

 

Richard 

 

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 8:57 AM Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:

If you have the fixture from Scott you should be good.  He built about 10 gears for me around 2004 and they worked great!  Glad you are making the nose gears!  The main gears are perhaps a bit easier to find although I don't know who to source for them.  Any idea?

Bruce
---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock=yahoo.com@groups.io>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:58:55 -0600

Bruce,

 

 These are being fabricated from the updated fixtures designed by Scott after multiple failures of the original nose gear. If there are updates that need to be made to the newer style legs that reduce shimmy, please advise.

 

Tony

 

 

On Jan 28, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:

Make sure you have the correct angle with respect to the bottom front of the gear being further forward  at the bottom.  Otherwise it will shimmy

Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock=yahoo.com@groups.io>
To: "main@q-list.groups.io" <main@q-list.groups.io>
Subject: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:54:00 +0000 (UTC)

 

Hello Everyone!

 

 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.

 

Tony

 

 

 

<Nose_wheel_shimmy_theoretical_anlaysis_TKL_FEB_2008.pdf>


ryan goodman
 

Tony, is there more you can share with regard to what the right geometry is and also the troublesome geometry.


On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 8:00 PM, Tony Warnock via groups.io
<tony.warnock@...> wrote:
Jay thanks for the great write up!! This is very informative and I would love to see the rest of the studies/papers Imraan shared with you!! There is always room for improvement and shimmy is a big issue with these gear especially on the Velocities. The angle of the vertical section of the gear is critical and in working on several Velocities we found that a degree or two of difference could mean the difference in shimmy or no shimmy. Great discussion and thank you again for the info!!

Tony


On Jan 29, 2021, at 12:18 PM, Jay Scheevel <jay@...> wrote:



Thanks for your efforts, Tony. Even if we don’t need parts right away, the entire group is here to support you. It’s a team effort after 30+ years of people pitching in.

 

Here is some information for you to consider wrt the nose gear, should you want to make some changes. One of our group members, Imraan, is a aero-engineering professor at Oklahoma State. When he was starting his career, he was in Maryland and bought a Tri-Q200. He used his plane to do instrumented drop tests of the gear, and also did a full finite-element based numerical stress workup of loads on the nose gear. He evaluated the shimmy limiting factors too. He published this study and was kind enough to give me a copy of his paper. I will summarize some of the key points as to how they may relate to any improvements you may decide to make. Imraan monitors the group and he can correct me or embellish as needed. I am also attaching a useful paper on shimmy analysis of a castering nose wheel. I have a couple more papers if you are interested.

 

Imraan found that the maximum stress on the nose gear occurs in the tight bend near where the nose fork pivot slides onto the gear. This is not surprising, but understanding this reveals two facts: 1That location is the most likely failure point (buckling the back side of the tube near the fork) and 2. Whenever the gear leg is loaded It flexes and reduces the forward rake angle (making it more likely to shimmy).

 

Below is a key figure from his paper showing stress magnitude color coded to reveal the highly stressed areas when loaded. Warmer colors are higher stress (note the location of the red area, which is the highest stress). The practical demonstration of pushing the leg stress far enough for failure was demonstrated by the guy who bought Earnest Martin’s Tri-Q200. He apparently slammed it into the ground hard enough to break off the fork, right where Imraan’s stress analysis showed it would break.

 

I notice when I am heavy on the brakes and get down below about 40 mph, mine starts to shimmy also. Probably because, the increased nose down load is pushing it into the unstable zone and/or that same load is flexing the bend enough to reduce the rake (also pushing it into the unstable zone). When I let off the brakes, the shimmy goes away (but so does the pavement on my short runway, so I really have no choice).

 

If I were to recommend a change to the leg. I would recommend placing a gusset in the tightest part of the bend on the leg (near the fork on the trailing side), in order to more evenly distribute the stress to the rest of the gear leg. This should making the tight bend less prone to failure and less likely to flex and reduce the forward rake of the pivot.  

 

Not sure how this would influence the stiffness/springiness of the gear (already too springy!), but maybe Imraan can chime in on that.

 

Cheers,

Jay

<image003.jpg>

 

 

 

From: main@Q-List.groups.io <main@Q-List.groups.io> On Behalf Of Tony Warnock via groups.io
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 8:44 AM
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs

 

Bruce, I’m based in Mobile AL. I am still active duty in the U. S. Coast Guard so at this point I am not a business. I am just a guy that didn’t want to see these awesome little planes loose complete support. I was hesitant to take this on in the beginning due to personal bandwidth and my erratic deployment schedule. I have remained in the shadows to learn and gain experience with airplanes before reaching out to the community as a vendor. However seeing the email traffic and need for parts I am trying to get set up sooner than initially planned for high demand parts. First step was nose gear being that it seemed to be a hot topic. I will keep the group informed as we get the tooling set up and workable. 

 



On Jan 29, 2021, at 8:15 AM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:



Welcome aboard Tony!  Where do you live?

Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Richard Kaczmarek 3RD" <fastlittleairplanes@...>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 09:02:03 -0500

Tony is going to be the source for all the parts. He is the canard guy that has taken all that over from our shop.

 

Richard 

 

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 8:57 AM Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:

If you have the fixture from Scott you should be good.  He built about 10 gears for me around 2004 and they worked great!  Glad you are making the nose gears!  The main gears are perhaps a bit easier to find although I don't know who to source for them.  Any idea?

Bruce
---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock=yahoo.com@groups.io>
To: main@q-list.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:58:55 -0600

Bruce,

 

 These are being fabricated from the updated fixtures designed by Scott after multiple failures of the original nose gear. If there are updates that need to be made to the newer style legs that reduce shimmy, please advise.

 

Tony

 

 

On Jan 28, 2021, at 10:12 PM, Bruce Crain <jcrain2@...> wrote:

Make sure you have the correct angle with respect to the bottom front of the gear being further forward  at the bottom.  Otherwise it will shimmy

Bruce

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Tony Warnock via groups.io" <tony.warnock=yahoo.com@groups.io>
To: "main@q-list.groups.io" <main@q-list.groups.io>
Subject: [Q-List] Nose Gear for Tri-Qs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:54:00 +0000 (UTC)

 

Hello Everyone!

 

 I have just completed all the machine work and bending of 5  new Tri-Q Nose gear assemblies. We will be doing the final welding this weekend and I hope to have them ready by Monday minus heat treatment. Two of these are already spoken for, so I will have 3 available. If interested please email me privately to discuss your specific needs and prices.

 

Tony

 

 

 

<Nose_wheel_shimmy_theoretical_anlaysis_TKL_FEB_2008.pdf>