4140 crankshaft modifications - propeller hub build

[phaxtris]

Cool....air brakes huh....

well one brake works...it turns real nice to the right, turning to the left needs a scary amount of throttle in tight quarters to get that rudder working

if i knew it was going to take such a long time i would have had another thread "taylor monoplane brake retrofit" and put something a little more common on there....but, at this point, according to a/s they are on the truck to them....that was 2 weeks ago, ack, oh well, what can you do!

 

[Tom O]

Look what finally showed up! the propeller from Ukraine i ordered, i dunno, 8, 9, 10 months ago ? well at least its beautiful, once i get some numbers from the barnstormers prop ill have to swap this on and compare

now if aircraft spruce would get me the brake parts i ordered 6 weeks ago i might actually get a flight in this summer, did i mention i took it for some taxi testing, and one of the brakes doesn't seem to grab well enough to steer, needs new shoes

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A fidget spinner!
Isn’t there a brake religning shop around you?

 

[phaxtris]

A fidget spinner!
Isn’t there a brake religning shop around you?

im sure there is, but when i ordered there was bad weather on the horizon so it wasn't really a big deal to wait 2 weeks, i didn't expect it to drag out this long. I have never had an order from A/S take more than 4 days to my door. Now im so long into the wait, do i find someone to re-line some old shoes only to have the a/s order show up?

and now the smoke is rolling in hard. so it may be bad flying weather for a bit again

 

[Susquatch]

one of the brakes doesn't seem to grab well enough to steer,

At first I thought huh? I didn't know they had separate brake pedals....... Then I realized they must be coupled to the rudder.

How does that work? How does it maintain good feedback in the air while still providing variable braking on land? Or do the brakes only start to engage at full rudder?

 

[phaxtris]

At first I thought huh? I didn't know they had separate brake pedals....... Then I realized they must be coupled to the rudder.

How does that work? How does it maintain good feedback in the air while still providing variable braking on land? Or do the brakes only start to engage at full rudder?

your first thought was correct, the brakes are controlled separate from the rudder

this little plane has the older style of "heel brakes", small pedals/levers actuated by your heels, the more common setup is to have "toe brakes", an extra set of pedals/levers connected to the top of the rudder pedals. Those are still actuated separately from the rudders, them being connected to the pedals just makes it easier to use the brakes and the rudder at the same time

I have flown aircraft with a castering nose wheel before and had no problem getting them to turn on the ground with just rudder and throttle, but i suppose those being nose wheel aircraft the rudder is directly in the propeller blast making it much more effective, not so much in the tail dragger (the other tail draggers ive flown had tail wheel steering, this one does not)

These are just some photos i took off the internet for example

 

[Susquatch]

this little plane has the older style of "heel brakes", small pedals/levers actuated by your heels, the more common setup is to have "toe brakes", an extra set of pedals/levers connected to the top of the rudder pedals.

Thank you!

Human/machine connections are fascinating.