Tail wheels! TAIL WHEELS!!!

[SleepyC]

In the recent year, all of us Giant Scale guys went from having the impossible task of trying to find a good high quality, light weight tail wheel, to recently having several amazing choices and designs.

One of these choices is J&J Tail Wheels.

John from J&J sent me some pictures of the different stages of manufacturing his light weight, super strong tail wheels.

You can see that there is quite a bit of thought and countless hours of CAD design used to get the product just right.

Starting from blocks of aluminum the wheel assemblies are cut, and shaped. The tail support wires are precision bent, and the units are put together.

So take a look at the pictures supplied, and I'm sure if you have any questions, John would be happy to answer them.



Check out J&J's website at:
http://jjtailwheels.googlepages.com/home

[SleepyC]

Pictures!

[Tailwind]

I have used one on my Carden for a while, and have had no issues whatsoever...great product and what we all needed!!!!

[SleepyC]

Also check out White Rose Engineering.
http://whiteroseeng.com/products/

We will be doing a story about these guys great products very soon.
Amazing new wheels and creative servo tray!!!

[The_Wreck]

Sleepy, thanks for the write-up.

We can also be found at:
www.jjtailwheels.com

and emails at jjtailwheels@gmail.com

Here are some specficiations:

- Less than 3 ounces for both versions.
- 5-Axis CNC machined from T-6 6061 aluminum (exacting tolerances)
- .25" 6AL-4V Grade 5 Titanium wire.
- Titanium Axle
- 1.5" DUBRO wheel
- Replaceable Oilite Bushings
- All items needed for install included

Additionally we can retrofit our wheel carriage (yoke) to your existing carbon fiber leaf springs. see information at this page:

http://jjtailwheels.googlepages.com/leafspringsetup

The wheel carriage ready to retrofit weighs 1.5 ounces.

Pictures below are carbon fiber retrofits from Brad Petty's Krill Yak and Wayne Geffon's Godfrey 300. Thanks for the support and more pictures can be seen in our customer gallery.

Also added a cool 3D PDF once it loads click on the image to manipulate the 3D.

[khedge]

This look similar to the R/C Blimp tailwheels, I like this a lot. This J&E tailwheel look like they are pretty light. What is the all up weight for one made for a 35%.

Great pics SleepyC

[The_Wreck]

	Quote: Originally Posted by khedge
	This look similar to the R/C Blimp tailwheels, I like this a lot. This J&E tailwheel look like they are pretty light. What is the all up weight for one made for a 35%. Great pics SleepyC

We currently make the one size that is suited for a 35-46% airplane, and on some of the new larger 33% airplanes. There are pictures on the website of them installed on both 35% and 40% or larger airplanes. The all up weight for the traditional tailwheel is 2.9 ounces and the direct drive excluding the wire is 2.85 ounces.

The weight can be reduced another .5 ounce by changing the supplied DUBRO tailwheel with a lighter 1.5" wheel like a Hangar9 Pro-Lite, MPI aluminum hub wheel for electric planes, or .3 ounce for a Sullivan 1.5" wheel.

[Rbyrd]

John and the crew have done a great job on these tailwheels. First class!!! I'm installing one on my Carden Yak and one on my new 43% Extra.

Good job guys!!!!

Rick

[Propstriker]

Best Damn Tailwheel on the Planet!!

[Wild Thang]

Also new Grumpy Troll tail wheels: http://www.flyinggiants.com/forums/f...tml#post567440

[The_Wreck]

I forgot to add that we can custom bend the titanium wire for smaller planes or specialized applications.

We use the same 6AL-4V titanium wire, this is the good stuff, much stronger (and expensive) than Grade 2 pure titanium.

http://jjtailwheels.googlepages.com/custombendpage

[Greyhoundman]

I just put a J&J tail wheel on my 35% wildhare Edge, you guys did a great job making these tail wheels I like these more than than my old Blimp tail wheels.

[xtremeRCpilot]

This will be my next tail wheel, these look well constructed. Worth every penny. Thanks


John

[The_Wreck]

Thanks for the kind compliments guys, it means a lot to us that everyone is happy with our products.

We started this just to make a couple of tailwheels for ourselves, and to try and solve every problem we ever had with a tailwheel. We have been through several iterations to get to where we are now, and have incorporated several ideas from our customers.

We intend to be around and make these products as long as people want to buy them, maybe at some point they will provide enough money to support my R/C habit.

[link]

I have never been a fan of the wire tail wheel and have had limited luck with the carbon because it delaminates. The wheel portion and the carbon leaf componet is more to my taste and I believe I saw these at Joe Nall this year but not sure of the manufacture. This really looks trick and look foward to seeing whats in store.