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Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 11:20
AM
Subject: [aus-soaring] Puchacz mainwheel
braking.
Perhaps some Puchacz operator out in the ether
may be able to inform me.
I am looking at a kit from Tost for our
Puchacz which we have just taken delivery of. This kit converts the
mainwheel to a hydraulic disc braked Tost 5 x 5 mainwheel and the kit
includes everything from the mainwheel up to the master cylinder.
The installation photos show the brake actuation being by means of a hand
control on the control column like many other gliders.
Our Puchacz is a 1991 Puchacz and currently has
wheel brake actuation by cable via pulling on a knob on the left cockpit
wall, front and rear seats.
Does any one out there operate a later Puchacz
with wheel brake actuation already by hand lever on the control column as the
standard factory arrangement? That is, did the manufacturer change
the Puchacz to hand lever on the control column at a later
stage?
I like the idea of the wheelbrake lever on
the control column. (I certainly
like hydraulic actuated disc brakes as the conversion of both out Janus B's
from drum to disc brake has been a very worthwhile modification.)
So with the Puchacz it is mainly a matter of where to source handbrake lever
parts to attach to the control column (which is aluminium -
curses).
Thanks in anticipation of a useful
reply.
Roger Druce
