I just broke the rudder on my 4*40 for the second time. [] The reason? I am a total klutz and when cleaning the plane I put too much down pressure on the horizontal stabilizer which caused the tail wheel to break loose from the rudder. What a goober thing to do! [sm=drowning.gif]

Anyway, that brings me to two questions.

First, I have ordered a new rudder. When it gets here I know I need to attach it to the existing vertical tail fin by using CA hinges. However, I am going to have to fabricate new slots in both the new rudder and the vertical tail fin to receive the CA hinges. (The existing slots in the vertical tail fin which match up with the prefabbed slots in the rudder will already be filled with one-half of a slightly used CA hinge. ) First question - what is the best way to fabricate new slots in the rudder and the vertical tail fin?[sm=confused.gif]

Second question, what is the best tail wheel assembly I can buy for this plane? Do they make an assembly with some sort of spring mechanism can absorb some of the blow from placing too much downward force on the back end of the plane? If not, is there a modification I should make to the existing tail wheel assembly?