25 November, 2008

Brakes

1.5 hours

Today I assembled the brakes and got ready to cut the aft end of the plane to make room for the tailwheel spring mount. Not a lot as I was doing other things but still steady progress.

This is the rudder pedals with all the brakes


Here you can see that I don't want any dragging brakes, I used the single bolt (AN3-56) instead of the dual bolt setup as per Van's. I also added a spring to help with the return as some have done. I figured this is easiest to do now rather then later, and I think it is well worth the very little weight gain if any as I eliminated some extra washers and nuts with this whole setup.

Hope to get close to mounting the tail spring mount tomorrow, night.

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