looking for a wheel brake solution

any thoughts/suggestions? *Thanks!

I replaced the 4-inch wheel with drum brake on my Apis with a Tost
Tria wheel with disk brake. See http://www.wingsandwheels.com/pdf/Tria.pdf
for a description.

-- Bob --

On Apr 11, 6:05*pm, Bob Luten wrote:
any thoughts/suggestions? *Thanks!

I replaced the 4-inch wheel with drum brake on my Apis with a Tost
Tria wheel with disk brake. *Seehttp://www.wingsandwheels.com/pdf/Tria.pdf
for a description.

* -- Bob --

interesting, do you remember what you paid for it? Otherwise I can
always email Tim, or he might chime in here.

Bob K - 5.00 x 5 would be ideal since that is a very popular airplane
size. Dean Gradwell converted his very nice Cherokee II to take a
5.00 x 5 tire for that reason, so it can be done. My constraint that
is driving me away from that is that it seems that a 5" wheel requires
a 3/4" axle and Leah's Cherokee is currently set up for a 5/8" axle.
Not impossible to convert but would require fabrication of new
fittings and some tearing apart and rebuilding. I have enough of that
to do the way it is. 4.00 x 4 aircraft tires are available from
Desser so there shouldn't be much of an issue getting them. Prices
are semi reasonable too.

On Apr 11, 9:35*pm, Tony wrote:
On Apr 11, 6:05*pm, Bob Luten wrote:

any thoughts/suggestions? *Thanks!

I replaced the 4-inch wheel with drum brake on my Apis with a Tost
Tria wheel with disk brake. *Seehttp://www.wingsandwheels.com/pdf/Tria.pdf
for a description.

* -- Bob --

interesting, do you remember what you paid for it? *Otherwise I can
always email Tim, or he might chime in here.

Bob K - 5.00 x 5 would be ideal since that is a very popular airplane
size. *Dean Gradwell converted his very nice Cherokee II to take a
5.00 x 5 tire for that reason, so it can be done. *My constraint that
is driving me away from that is that it seems that a 5" wheel requires
a 3/4" axle and Leah's Cherokee is currently set up for a 5/8" axle.
Not impossible to convert but would require fabrication of new
fittings and some tearing apart and rebuilding. *I have enough of that
to do the way it is. *4.00 x 4 aircraft tires are available from
Desser so there shouldn't be much of an issue getting them. *Prices
are semi reasonable too.

You may want to consider using 5/8 axle and making a sleeve of .062
wall tubing to get to size required for bearings. We do this on 1-26's
so we can use more readily available bearings.
UH

You may want to consider using 5/8 axle and making a sleeve of .062
wall tubing to get to size required for bearings. We do this on 1-26's
so we can use more readily available bearings.
UH

Hank,

yea, Pete made that suggestion last night offline which caused me slap
my forehead. duh! Anyway i looked at some 5" wheels this morning and
lo and behold matco actually has one with a 5/8" axle, I had missed it
apparently the last time I looked.

http://www.matcomfg.com/W50CC62D-idv-2350-29.html

Now I just have to check the width I have available, it might be tight.