Regarding welding on the Kitfox nose gear strut, is there a concern about heat treating of the metal? The text below was copied from the Luscombe Airplanes Yahoo web forum that has technical chatter about the old certified Luscombes.

As far as how this (Kitfox) landing gear in question was treated, I do not know since I am not the builder who put most of the time on it.

"RE: [luscombeairplanes] LANDING GEAR WOES
dcombs@luscombesilvaire.info08 Nov, 2006
The gear legs are pretty highly treated (180KSI), and welding will damage the integrity. The legs must be annealed, welded , stress relieved, the re-treated and finally prepped for corrosion proofing. y the time you do all that you will meet or exceed the cost of a new or previously repaired set of legs done in a 'batch'. Classic aero inventories these in the repaired and new condition.- fully heand properly heat treated."

Skot