Thanks for the reassurance that any reputable maintenance organisation will be able to deal with the Mooney...although if there are any that currently maintain several planes I would like to know....Cambridge sounds like one...
Also I don't think it's a weak nose gear....as dirkdj points out it is the geometry that causes the problem...in other words due to the longer distance from nose wheel to prop, any compression of the nose gear and/ or drop into a depression will be magnified at the prop by a factor approaching two compared with a Beechcraft having a factor not much greater than one....if that makes sense