{"id":109,"date":"2021-04-17T17:36:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T07:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clmodelflier.com\/clmf\/?p=109"},"modified":"2021-04-17T17:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T07:36:46","slug":"fixing-tail-wheels-to-profile-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clmodelflier.com\/clmf\/2021\/04\/17\/fixing-tail-wheels-to-profile-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Tail Wheels to Profile Models"},"content":{"rendered":"

Usually, when fitting a tailwheel or skid to a profile fuselage the method shown on the plan is often to simply poke a hole in the fuselage to accept the wire and glue it in place. It never struck me as being a satisfactory way of fixing a skid particularly if you attach the skid to a self-launching device.<\/p>\n

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Typical tail fitting to a profile fuselage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another method I’ve seen is to drill a hole into the fuselage to accept a dowel with the wire skid running through the dowel.<\/p>\n

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The first problem I had with this method is the practicality of getting the fuselage into my drill press to drill the hole at the angle shown and to be sure I get the hole square. The second was drilling a hole in the centre of a small piece of dowel.<\/p>\n

Some time ago I came across a better way to fit wire tailwheels or tail skids to profile models.<\/p>\n

First, sandwich your skid between two pieces of balsa. Note the angle at the end of the wire which stops it from twisting. I use epoxy for this job. The whole job was clamped into a vice while the epoxy cures.<\/p>\n

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Once the epoxy is cured cut a slot in the profile fuselage wide enough to accept the balsa covered end of the skid with a nice snug fit.<\/p>\n

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Usually, when fitting a tailwheel or skid to a profile fuselage the method shown on the plan is often to simply poke a hole in the fuselage to accept the wire and glue it in place. It never struck me as being a satisfactory way of fixing a skid particularly if you attach the skid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clmodelflier.com\/clmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clmodelflier.com\/clmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clmodelflier.com\/clmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clmodelflier.com\/clmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clmodelflier.com\/clmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clmodelflier.com\/clmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/clmodelflier.com\/clmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clmodelflier.com\/clmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clmodelflier.com\/clmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clmodelflier.com\/clmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}