ORIGINAL: Scota4570

I know, it's not an engine question. Guys who convert engines and fabricate are more likely to have an answer, I think.

1/4 scale D-7. First flight was today. I am tickeled, it flew great. 39cc EFCO conversion. The tailwheel won't do. It is the type with a single spring that pokes in to the rudder. It does not have the guts to turn the airplane. Consistent with my modeling philosophy, "Why buy it if you can make it for twice the cost and ten times the labor?" I am thinking of laying up several layers of spring steel leaves and pivoting the wheel with a bell crank. The wheel would stick out behind the rudder and two horns would be attached to the bottom of the rudder. Or, possibly running seperate pull-pull lines back into the fuselage and tieing into the rudder bellcrank directly.

Thoughts on my plan of attack? Any better ideas? Where can I salvage or, gulp...buy, appropriate spring steel stock to make the leafspring? Rake tines and recoil starter springs are too narrow.