Larry Flesner wrote: > As for the tubing for a spacer, just make sure it's heavy enough > wall thickness that you can snug down the rod end bearing > without crushing the tubing. Use you best judgement.
Over the years, I've ended up with thickwall aluminum tubing for just about every size bolt. Just find the thickest wall tubing in the Wicks (or AS&S, if you must) catalog that has a few thousands clearance for your bolt (inside diameter). I buy a foot or two so I always have some on hand. I got an hour of Champ taildragger time in yesterday, and the thing practically landed itself. Flying and keeping the ball centered was an entirely different matter though! I've befriended a local CFI who owns four taildraggers by making him a fiberglass nosebowl for one of his two Swifts. It was easy (I borrowed a mold), but it's like Dana said, I now have a friend for life. He's going to get me tailwheel endorsed and my BFR, and I'll be ready for some KR time. I've got news though, the KRs I've flown (about 6 of them) fly a whole lot easier than this Champ! If the weather holds up, I' should get in another 7 or 8 landings today... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
