Moderators: GAHorn, Karl Towle, Bruce Fenstermacher
Maybe I'll bring it for the convention auction, it has some really neat Aircraft Spruce & Specialty tape on it.Bruce Fenstermacher wrote:Wow a really cool card board box. To bad that somebody put that darn tailwheel on top and crushed it in a little. It's salvageable though I think. What you going to do with it Ed?
For sure! That tail wheel is WAY to clean to put on your 170, Ed!Ryan Smith wrote:Be sure to fill that thing up with grease so that it oozes out. I hear that really helps the friction plates and improves the performance and longevity of your tailwheel.
I was. I have been wrestling with the mechanics at my field about the tailwheel on "my" airplane. Because I don't own it, I'm often ignored. The last time after they replaced the pawl spring, the tailwheel was pumped with about ten pumps of grease...so much that it ran out through the steering arm slots and all over the top of the tire.Aryana wrote:Ed, that is purdy...Ryan was just being sarcastic. No better way to ruin a perfectly good tailwheel than blindly pumping it full of grease!
I knew you were just screwing with me Ryan...I've been hearing about the grease thing in like .....forever. I will limit the grease and Hopefully this wheel will last me for as long as I'll ever need one.Ryan Smith wrote:I was. I have been wrestling with the mechanics at my field about the tailwheel on "my" airplane. Because I don't own it, I'm often ignored. The last time after they replaced the pawl spring, the tailwheel was pumped with about ten pumps of grease...so much that it ran out through the steering arm slots and all over the top of the tire.Aryana wrote:Ed, that is purdy...Ryan was just being sarcastic. No better way to ruin a perfectly good tailwheel than blindly pumping it full of grease!
Thankfully, no issues in the last 20 hours, but it's been messy trying to clean up.
Ed's only owned 25A for 45 years. He's still a spring chicken...you know, in the grand scheme of things.Kyle Wolfe wrote:Ed's no newby guys! He knows his way around a 170. Not to mention the RVs he's built too. But we gotta give him a little BS about anything that clean and shiny!
I think it's more like a late fall or early winter chicken.Ryan Smith wrote:Ed's only owned 25A for 45 years. He's still a spring chicken...you know, in the grand scheme of things.Kyle Wolfe wrote:Ed's no newby guys! He knows his way around a 170. Not to mention the RVs he's built too. But we gotta give him a little BS about anything that clean and shiny!
