On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:00:29 -0400, " jls" wrote:


"Scott" wrote in message
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I think it's the other way around...what can a Maule do that a Scott
3200 can't do? SHIMMEY! Years ago we put a Maule pneumatic on our
Cessna 140 to replace the hard rubber tire Scott 2000. Never could get
the Maule to work well, so we went back to the Scott. The other thing
that is nice on the 3200 is dual forks. That just HAS to be better than
a single fork in rough field operations...

Scott, I have seen those Scott forks bend, warp, crack, break and be
re-welded. Knock on wood, but I have never seen that big brawny fork on a
Maule crack or break. I have never had a Maule shimmy on my aircraft, but
have fixed a Cub's Maule that shimmied because the tailsprings had been
improperly installed and the wheel was mis-rigged.

One of the Fly Baby crowd put together a paper on the care and feeding of Maule
tailwheels:

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/tech/Maule_Tailwheel.pdf

He recommends dissimilar springs to discourage shimmy, and says that binding or
looseness in the assembly itself encourages it.

Myself, I haven't had a problem.

Ron Wanttaja