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General Helio Discussion / Re: Time to order tires for the project
« Last post by RCarter on November 16, 2018, 07:55:16 PM »My plane had 22x8-8 tires on the x-wind gear when I bought it. Didn't seem like a bad tire to me. Was about the same size as the 21" aeroclassic baby tundra tires we had on the C-170 at the same time. I did some off airport and mostly gravel and grass runways with the 22" tire. No complaints at all. I only flew it for 50 hours with those tires while I was learning the plane, but of all the early problems I had tires were never one of them.
On that tail I had the 10.5x4 channel tread. It seemed to work well on the tail. I didn't notice any shimmy with it on gravel or pavement but I land on pavement so rarely I don't really remember. It was sturdy as all heck and I would still be running it if I only flew to firm places. I bought one from Desser about two years ago, but checked there yesterday and they don't list it any more. I do wonder if their pile of NOS tires may have run out, but the local Aviall had a few of them on the shelf last time I was in there.
How about a picture or two? Always fun to see projects turn into flying airplanes!
-Russell
On that tail I had the 10.5x4 channel tread. It seemed to work well on the tail. I didn't notice any shimmy with it on gravel or pavement but I land on pavement so rarely I don't really remember. It was sturdy as all heck and I would still be running it if I only flew to firm places. I bought one from Desser about two years ago, but checked there yesterday and they don't list it any more. I do wonder if their pile of NOS tires may have run out, but the local Aviall had a few of them on the shelf last time I was in there.
How about a picture or two? Always fun to see projects turn into flying airplanes!
-Russell