YellowBlueBird,
To elaborate, mine has over seven hours and, I'm sorry to say, some rather hard landings. I've found skid marks on the bottom of the rudder a time or two, but the tail wheel assembly is holding up fine. If it did bite the dust I, like bikerbc, would replace it with a Sullivan unit -
this one
ORIGINAL: kwblake
Hey grosbeak. Just went and checked out your website. All I can say is wow. Where do you find the time to build and fly? Must have taken hundreds of hours to put it together. Very impressive. I have a Pulse 40, (which I love flying) but am considering buying a 125. Bigger is better???? I live out in the middle of nowhere, so we get hundreds of birds in the yard. I have to admit, the Rose Breasted is one of my favourites.
Kevin, I'm glad you like the site. And I fancy myself more of en Evening Grosbeak.
ORIGINAL: tailskid
I assembled mine stock and it has held up well. Had to put on a 15/7 three bladed prop for ground clearance and as you can see - there could be room for more
(Or better landing procedure!) Here is mine with my Goldberg ARF in my 'flying truck'.
Tailskid, how does it fly with the 15 x 7 x 3?
I found mine very tippy on grass with the stock arrangement so I swapped it out for some TnT landing gear, seen here:
It solved the problem but I like the look of stock better so I added a riser block for clearance and moved the mount forward:
I also added a 15 x 7 x 3 propeller (partly to help slow the plane down at low throttle, partly for ground clearance and partly for looks) which is why I'm asking for your impressions (I have yet to remaiden).