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icubob(at)newnorth.net
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:48 am Post subject: tail wheel leaf spring.

hi lowell, thanks for the reply and good info.  

  right now my tailwheel is matco and 2 leaf  springs. the springs are attached with thru bolts at the fuselage end and at the  wheel. my thought would be to replace 2 leaf springs with 3 , each of 1/10''  thickness. this should be  more flexible than 2 of each 1/4''. also, one  leaf must be firmly attached to the matco wheel but the other 2 could have an  elongated hole which would allow them so slide a bit against each other,  allowing more flex. maybe a paper thin matreial like delrin between  them.

  i guess i am sold on 2 leaf redundancy but i  would like to put more flex in the spring setup. i dont know if the spring shop  supplies any other thickness than 1/4 and 1/10. 

                                                                                                    bob noffs

  

  

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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:53 pm Post subject: tail wheel leaf spring.

The elongated hole has some merit, but how would  you allow for the necessary movement between the two leaves when tightening up  the tailwheel bolt to the springs?  Those things need to be pretty  tight.

 Deke Morisse

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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:13 pm Post subject: tail wheel leaf spring.

deke, i figured the elongated hole had to be large  enough to fit over the nut holding  one leaf tight to the wheel. i dont  nearly have the answers yet but i am thinking anyway.

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