Joe,Had heel brakes,hydraulic, on the KR taildragger set up with the cylinder laid almost horizontal,maybe 20 degrees to the floor.The pedal was a round,slightly curved,aluminum piece,drilled and tapped,attached to the cylinder shaft.Great Plains brakes on the wheels.Worked for many years.I removed a hand brake set up from my bro's trigear KR and installed on the taildragger.Without going into a lot of detail,let's just say the hand brake is my favorite.My KR is sensitive to rudder inputs and the handbrake,differential,is easier to control during the landing rollout.Tommy W.
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Jeff Scott via KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> wrote: > > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 at 7:55 AM > > From: "joe.kr2s.builder--- via KRnet" <krnet at list.krnet.org> > > To: krnet at list.krnet.org > > Subject: KR> Brakes > > > > Hey guys,Does anyone have heel breaks installed? if so got any pictures? > How do they work?Joe HortonCoopersburg, Pa > > > > Joe, > > I've got hydraulic heel brakes (Matco Cylinders and Cleveland brakes) on > my homebuilt SuperCub. You're welcome to fly it with me when you're here > next month. I have seen them mounted with a set of small flat pedals > mounted directly on the end of the brake cylinders on a KR. Mine are set > up so the cylinders are at roughly 50% of the length of the brake pedal so > I have some pretty good leverage with the brakes. My SuperCub is the 4th > plane I've owned with heel brakes (out of 10 planes so far). Two were > mechanical heel brakes, which I don't recommend. Heel brakes have both > advantages and disadvantages. With heel brakes you don't put any pressure > on your rudder pedals for braking. When you need to brakes, you learn to > fly the rudders with your ankles and the brakes with your knees to push > your heels, so takes a bit more coordination. Since I have quite a bit of > time flying with both types, I seem to be fine with switching back and > forth between using heel and toe brakes. I just scanned through my web > site and don't have any good photos of the brake configuration on the > SuperCub. I need to pull the front seat out of the Cub this evening > anyway, so I'll try to remember to take my camera and get you a picture or > two. > > -Jeff Scott > Los Alamos, NM > > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options >
