Larry & others, The 1/4" axle was a guess on my part since I had no way of actually measuring it. I will have on of these assemblies in my hands by this time next week and I will get the exact specs on the Net then. As light as the tail is on a KR, I would have thought that size axle being that short would be more than adequate. I say this because the Diehl nose gear axle is an AN-3 bolt and I have never heard of the axle breaking on the Diehl nosegear.
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Wales, WI USA E-mail me at [email protected] Visit my KR-2S CorvAIRCRAFT web site at http://mywebpage.netscape.com/n886mj/homepage.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "larry flesner" <[email protected]> To: "KRnet" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 8:29 PM Subject: RE: KR> Tailwheel noise > At 12:16 PM 10/28/04 -0400, you wrote: > >Larry; obvious solution, to me at least is when faced with this situation, > >move the whole tailwheel assembly forward 1 bay and make associated changes > >to assembly to work in that position. > >Doug Rupert > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > I like my tailwheel all the way to the back of my 24" fuselage stretch > and with the wide gear my KR handles GREAT on the ground. I'll not > trade my steerable / full-swivel tailwheel for any other setup. I would > however like to have a small pneumatic tire instead of the solid tire > I have now. I did some taxi test one day with a pneumatic tire and > the differance was astounding as far as the noise level goes. Mark > is probably right when he says the pneumatic wheel/tire weight would be > the same or lighter than a solid tire. > > The wheel he found looks good but the 1/4" axle size probably won't > handle my tail weight with a single fork tailwheel assembly. To > make it work I'd have to find different size bearings and there we > go again. I'll probably just put up with a little tailwheel noise and > go fly. Mine is only noisy on a rough surface and makes very little > noise on new asphalt. It doesn't make any noise at all on grass! :-) > > Larry Flesner > > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
