I wanted to put a Stinker/Model 12 tailwheel mount on this plane with a locking tailwheel.
This plane has had reinforcements welded into the inside of the lower horizontal tubes joining the Fin post. It would be a lot of work to duplicate the setup.I remembered the locking tailwheel I got off of Ebay afew months ago was a Haigh adapter type anyway. I stopped by Team Oracle's hangar and and looked at Sean's showplane and borrowed that idea. it's a combo Haigh/model12 Stinker mount. I tacked it into place ,but still have to add the pinch bolt roid to it. It's held in place by a -6 bolt and the pinch tube that lines it up. I'll also have to have a metal wedge machined to go under the front of the tailwheel spring about where the old leafpring sat.
Interesting. The airplane came to me with the leaf spring type mount. Did you change it back at some point?
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