Nose Wheel Shimmy Dampener

Here's the shimmy dampener system that Sid Knox devised.

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"Nose wheel shimmy. One of the recurring irritations of an otherwise great airplane is the nosewheel anti-shimmy scheme. Velocity forum readers may recall this subject comes up periodically, stirs up a few people, and then dies with the generally lame advise to keep the Belview washers clean and tightened to some seemingly arbitrary value and stop whining.

To get into my hanger I must make a sharp 120 degree right followed immediately by a left 90. Sometimes I make it and sometimes I end up out in the weeds.

After the last time, I finally decided I was pissed enough to try and do something about it (no, not get another hanger)."

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After two years, no problems... the only thing I would do different next time would be to make it look a little better.

Sid Knox
Oklahoma

Velocity 173 RG N199RS
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KR2 N24TC
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