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Date: 10-11-2019
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Number of Hours: 3.00
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Brief Description: Broken tailwheel
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During one lot of taxiing tests I tight turned to backtrack and the tailwheel arm bent from being pulled over centre so I got out and disconnected the chains leaving me with a free castering tailwheel.
At taxi speeds the rudder by itself has no affect on directional control however using the differential brakes was a breeze to keep the LE straight.
I was always a bit concerned about the lightweight build of my original tailwheel arms. I cut them off and drilled through the caster to take the 4130 rod. I welded 4130 tubes to the arms and flattened and drilled the ends. Really happy with the result and now have zero flex.
Not long now and we will be flying :)
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Broken
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Rod through
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Finished
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