Hi Jon,
How the heck do I know...I just build em.
I'm with you Jon, we have an 8 acre pond our club uses and I've always loved float planes but have never flown one. When I joined the club and saw the pond I decided I had to build one.
One of the guys on several forums does fly floats and likes to tease me about not finishing my BUSA cub, I've seen pictures of his float planes and i'll track him down and ask him to visit this forum and help you with some answers. He usually hangs around the seaplane forum. I think he may have visited this forum too. Hey Nony....HELP! I will maiden mine on wheels first and then when my flying buddy from Canada visits again (he also flys floats) I'll have him do the float maiden and give me some help. So...in otherwords....I'm a float newbie. Did builder jim get his strut problem worked out?

Bud