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Old 04-18-2007 | 11:45 AM
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cmoulder
 
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Default RE: GP Venus II

Ditto... CA hinges work just fine.

The only problem I've had is with the bottom hinge on the rudder breaking. However, this was not the hinge's fault but the brass tailwheel steering fitting and the plastic bracket (Sullivan tailwheel). I landed a little hard a couple times while landing on a very windy day, and it appears that the bracket flexes and the brass fitting hits the rudder, thereby breaking the hinge. I thought this might be the fault of inferior hinges from Great Planes, but I used some Radio South CA hinge material and had the exact same thing happen, which made me suspect something else. Anyway, I bent my own tailwheel wire from 3/32" piano and made a little ply pedestal to move the bracket farther from the rudder and have had no problems since.

-- Bob