Can someone tell me how to mount a sullivan tailwheel on this plane. Its been recommended on a number of posts, but how do you do it with the rudder ending above the elevator connector? A photo would be a big help.

bob

I like the Sullivan as well as anybody and I have several on planes. But on this plane, I used the following bracket. I made up a new wire that the top went up about an inch above the bottom of the rudder. I had a 90 degree bend in the wire at that point which I epoxied into a hole at the hinge line of the rudder. I accomplished this after the plane was built. This one is the 60 size but there are also 40 and 1/4 scale sizes.

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Enjoy,

Jim

I decided ahead of time to use the Sullivan tailwheel bracket, so before putting on the tail feathers I lined up the bracket so the pivot was under the rudder hinge line, then I drilled 2 holes using bracket holes as a template and installed 2 blind nuts. As I recall, I also built up the area inside where the blind nuts would go with a piece of a popsicle stick, so it was thicker there. When I actually installed the tailwheel bracket later in the build, I made up a space from a piece of wood, that I believe was 3/16" (or maybe 1/8") thick. Put the spacer between the tailwheel bracket and fuselage, installed the screws and tightened. Then ran the spring from the pivot to under the rudder and up into it with a drop of CA. Worked really well. If your plane is already built, you should use sheet metal screws to mount the bracket to the fuselage. It should hold but you can always cut out the area and build it up with thicker wood if you wanted to take the time to do it.

I installed my Sullivan bracket real easy after the plane was built. I glued a piece of thin plywood onto the bottom of the tail section so that the screws would have something solid to screw into. Since the bottom of the rudder is a bit too high, I glued a little balsa block onto the bottom of the rudder, and used that as a mount for the Sullivan steering spring wire to fasten into.

Ernie

My Ultra Stick Lite Has a Sullivan tailwheel on it.. I just added a small piece of ply under the bracket for the screws to go into. Then lined the pivot point up clos to the elev. hing line and ran a 4-40 through the elev. hinge line (drilled small hole) and bent it 90 degrees to run under the bottom of the ruddr(touching botton of the rudder) with another 90 degree bend up into the rudder and some epoxy! Works GREAT