Broken Air Ride spindle

[ATAK, Inc.]

Oh man that was either real bad or very good that you posted that info.....can I have your home phone number and email address....I have some stuff to ask you. LOL
j/k, your wealth of knowledge will come in real handy around here.

Tony, there has been a couple stock failures in that same area hasn't there?

More than happy to be of help. I have had way too many interesting things happen to me over the years. Over 20 years ago we had an F-4E Phantom eat a Turkey Vulture at 500kts. Needless to say the engine was not the same. A Major with the incident investigation team called me over to inspect the engine. When I got there the core of the engine sat on a stand with ALL of the blades broken off at least 50%. He asked me to tell him where the cracks started on the blades. I looked at the core for a few minutes and replied, "The cracks started at the leading edge and propagated to the trailing edge". He got a bit hot under the collar, called my boss who came over, I showed him the marks on the blades and he agreed with my findings. I just love titanium.
Sorry for hijacking the thread.

BTW, I had a spindle break off on me several years ago, it appeared to be a fatigue fracture, cyclic stresses on a part like this are enormous.

MrQuick, if you ever need anything, just let me know.
Tom