Here ya go, Nate.

The tail wheel was turned by a machinist buddy with too much time on his hands... the "tire" is an O-ring.

The same guy made the yoke, after I discussed the problem with him. He's a freakin' magician a far as I'm concerned.

The rest of the rig was cobbled together from stuff out of my junk box and the kit-supplied c/f bracket and steering tiller arm. The yoke rides on dual ball bearings, little tiny suckers (3mm i.d.) that came out of a helicopter rotor head mixing base. The ball link pushrod and balls are spares that I had lying around from another helicopter. I was into helis strong for a long time, and accumulated quite a bit of exotic small goodies like this that have come in handy on airplanes.

This rig has worked like a champ, and held up very well. As noted, at first I used the kit-supplied springs for connecting the rudder to the assembly, and they did fine; right up until one broke. I really dislike the spring idea; I realize it is to prevent damage to the rudder servo, but in the first place I wonder just how big of a deal that is (as long as you land properly, anyway); and in the second, I have a very powerful digital rudder servo on this model (and the Extra). I dislike even more having to rig up some Rube Goldberg arrangement at the field, so I can still fly after something has failed. These are not the first models I've put solid tail wheel steering pushrods on; I can only wonder why I didn't do it on these to begin with...

While most of the hardware that comes with these two H9 offerings is usable, and in some cases even pretty good, they really missed the boat with that tail wheel assembly, IMO.