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Old 02-06-2007 | 02:02 PM
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Default RE: Tailwheel Set Up Options

Lexmar,
I don't have any good photos but I'll try to describe how we did mine. We ran a pushrod to steer the tail wheel. We drilled a pushrod exit hole using a really long 3/16 bit so we could get a good angle. The hole is in the side of the fuselage, in front of the stabilizer, and the angle points the pushrod directly at the tail wheel. In the radio compartment we drilled the former that the existing pushrod tubes go through and connected the pushrod to the rudder servo.

This is not the part I used but I think it would work well
http://www2.omnimodels.com/cgi-bin/w...I=GPMQ4245&P=O

I cobbled mine together using a Dubro bracket and a control arm I found at the LHS. The part in the link gets you everything in one package.

I'm sure there's some flex in the pushrod since the tube is only glued at the ends, but it doesn't seem to be a problem.