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Correct adhesive to use to attach tail wheel assembly.
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April 1st 18, 08:37 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Colin Roney
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Correct adhesive to use to attach tail wheel assembly.
I use Evostick on my Lak 12 to good effect.
At 01:56 01 April 2018,
wrote:
I recently sheared off the tailwheel assembly on my LS
3a by applying a
sma=
ll side load to the tail while ground handling. The
tailwheel has a
rubber=
base that is glued to the fuselage and a roller blade
type wheel below.
T=
he base clearly functions as a shock absorber and the
entire assembly is
de=
signed to shear off in a ground loop. I ordered a
replacement tailwheel
as=
sembly and used a 3M brand spray contact cement to
mount the wheel
assembly=
.. I gave it 24 hours to cure and was able to pull the
assembly off of the
=
fuselage with very little force. There was no residue of
the contact
cemen=
t on the wheel assembly. Clearly, the contact cement
did not adhere to
the=
rubber. Can anyone tell me the proper type of contact
cement to use for
t=
his application?
Thanks,
Paul Stiles 9P
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