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Post by sackohammers on Aug 22, 2007 5:40:46 GMT 1
2 1/2" Du-bro diamond lite for front wheels and a Sullivan 1" rubber tail wheel with aluminum hub. All parts available from Tower Hobbies. Parts cost less than $15 total. The front wheels were more than half the total cost at $8.79 for the pair. Parts List: Dubro 2 1/2" Diamond Lite Wheels (1 pkg of 2 wheels) Sullivan Tail Wheel 1" (Part 352) 5/32" Brass Tubing DuraTrax 4-40 Locknut with Nylon threads Tools: Dremel Rotary Tool Small jeweler's type phillips screw drivers (remove wheel pants) Pliers Xacto knife (for deburring) Pint of Beer (optional) The Parts:  The width of the wheel is too wide. Dremel down one side of the front wheel hubs. Test fit the piece to make sure it turns freely without rubbing. You need to remove material from the outer edge of the hub as well. Cut 2 lengths of brass tubing to act as wheel bearing.  Shows the hub assembly on the stock landing gear.  Tail wheel was a "drop in" replacement. Just unscrew the stock nut, remove the old tailwheel, slide on the new tailwheel, and screw the stock nut back on.   My Super Cub:  Close-up of landing gear:  |
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Post by cjg on Aug 22, 2007 23:40:39 GMT 1
Why is the beer only optional? How can you work on R/C without it?  Is the rubber tail wheel a bit heavy? I used the 1 inch dubro foam wheel. The 4-40 locknuts are a great idea. Just tried them. Had a bunch in my r/c toolbox for my cars, never thought to use them here. |
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Post by sackohammers on Aug 23, 2007 14:26:11 GMT 1
Good point about the beer! It is only 4.5 grams or .16 oz. The specs are at the bottom of their catalogue (PDF warning) www.sullivanproducts.com/Sullivan_Internet_Catalog.pdfTop of page 13 - Skylight tires. Part S352 Glad you like the locknut idea. I'd heard many people complaining about the stock nuts and stripping... and several people asking questions here or there about what the threadsize was. |
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Post by sackohammers on Dec 28, 2007 16:43:45 GMT 1
Modified post to make it easier to find what people were looking for.
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tball
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Post by tball on Dec 28, 2007 19:27:40 GMT 1
Sackohammers,
Great post, others have posted wheel mods before but with your parts list it made it real easy to order them.
The only problem that I have with it, is that you must be pretty fast on the bench. I'm thinking it will take me at least 2 pints to get this done. ;D
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Post by pvtzemerak on Feb 12, 2008 22:10:54 GMT 1
sweet les paul
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Post by cartercub on Feb 12, 2008 23:20:26 GMT 1
just a quick question...does it matter what brass tubing you use?
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Post by sackohammers on Feb 14, 2008 17:46:32 GMT 1
Not really. The only requirements are that the inner diameter on the tubing needs to be large enough to fit around the stock axle and that the outter diameter of the tubing is small enough to fit inside the wheel hub.
The tubing is the fancy, low resistence method of doing this. Some people just wrap electrical tape around the axle and mount the wheel on that. Since the tubing was only about a dollar, and I've used it for other things, I preferred to use the tubing.
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Post by cubster on Mar 14, 2008 14:38:00 GMT 1
great topic,,,
wanting to order from TH
found only the dubro front wheel, cant find 'sullivan rear' or tubing' less than 13$!
can anyone tell me the link for the other parts needed?
thnx
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Post by sayers on Mar 14, 2008 18:51:57 GMT 1
great topic,,, wanting to order from TH found only the dubro front wheel, cant find 'sullivan rear' or tubing' less than 13$! can anyone tell me the link for the other parts needed?
thnxHi There Do a search in tower hobbys for "sullivan 352" Comes right up !' tail wheel $ 1.69 Happy Flights & Soft Landings Sayers |
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Post by patmatgal on Mar 14, 2008 18:54:05 GMT 1
cubster
Don`t know where you live but around here there`s a crafts store called Michaels, man they have lots and lots of stuff and are a whole lot cheaper than the lhs. Home Depot, Lowes or a hardware store may have the tubing at a better price. I put on Dubro wheels and didn`t even think of using tubing, shame on me (now the wheels wobble)
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Post by tness on May 2, 2008 1:28:38 GMT 1
Not really. The only requirements are that the inner diameter on the tubing needs to be large enough to fit around the stock axle and that the outter diameter of the tubing is small enough to fit inside the wheel hub. The tubing is the fancy, low resistence method of doing this. Some people just wrap electrical tape around the axle and mount the wheel on that. Since the tubing was only about a dollar, and I've used it for other things, I preferred to use the tubing. Quick question: Where did you get the tubing? I've been looking for that at my local hardware stores and can't find it. I ended up taking the centers out of the stock wheels(they separate with a screwdriver), and drilling my 2.5" DuBro rubber wheel centers out to accept the stock wheel centers. I kinda messed them up on the drill press though, so I would have liked to have used the brass tubing. We did that on our CG Eaglet 23 years ago and it worked great! |
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Post by duck9191 on May 2, 2008 2:25:53 GMT 1
you local hobby shop should have it. towerhobbies sells it too. hardware store probably wont have anything that small.
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Post by SCisOscarMike! on Jul 4, 2013 10:52:15 GMT 1
Hey what did you use to cut the brass tubing? I don't own any tools at the moment so lll have to buy something to cut the tubing. Thanks
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Post by SCisOscarMike! on Jul 4, 2013 11:00:06 GMT 1
Oh and how does it fly now??
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