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Nose gear leg replacement W&B

tomkk

Well Known Member
I forgot to weigh the new nose hear leg before I installed it to determine whether there was any change to the A/C CG. Can someone pass on the weight and the location of the fore/aft CG of the new leg assembly?
 
In the original thread about this SB, Vans Greg Hughes posted this:

There is no significant/meaningful difference in weight - the new leg assembly weighs 0.65 pounds more than the original design (6.52 lbs new vs 5.87 lbs original). Note that AC 43-13-1B Chapter 10 explains that any weight change of less than one pound is considered negligible (for aircraft in our class). When the second tube was added, there was also material removed from the original-design gear leg (specifically, a welded vertical flange that ran between the two mounting brackets/plates with four lightening holes in it, which was removed as part of the steps taken to reduce stress concentration, and because in our analysis it was found not to be adding structural value).
 
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