Trying to wrap my head around something I don't really like about the kit I'm building, and was hoping to bounce ideas off of others...
My kit came with a stack of 1/2" or maybe 5/8" by 1/16th angle aluminum, four lengts of 4130 tube, and some plastic bushings, and enough little labels to let me know that I was supposed to turn that into the rudder and heel brake pedals. The idea was that you rivet the angle into a rectangle, drill some holes in one end for the 4130 tube and bushings, and mount to a channel. You then connect a cable to one upper corner of that and there is your brake pedal or rudder pedal. No hardware was included for attaching the cable.
You can see I've already gone off design with a corner brace and the cross brace because I'm not a fan of parallelograms. But the whole thing just seems iffy to me. I've looked at pictures from the kit company but they show a different design or two.
So here's what I'm pondering... I could weld up a set of pedals from 4130. Simplest would look like this:
Aircraft spruce sells 5.8oz polycarbonate rudder pedals I might adapt, but at nearly $70 I sure could build cheaper.
I could probably also build a toe brake mechanism if it came to it, but at some point you are just adding weight and wasting time.
So what should I be thinking about here? Am I wasting my time even considering doing anything but what I've already got? What would you do?
My kit came with a stack of 1/2" or maybe 5/8" by 1/16th angle aluminum, four lengts of 4130 tube, and some plastic bushings, and enough little labels to let me know that I was supposed to turn that into the rudder and heel brake pedals. The idea was that you rivet the angle into a rectangle, drill some holes in one end for the 4130 tube and bushings, and mount to a channel. You then connect a cable to one upper corner of that and there is your brake pedal or rudder pedal. No hardware was included for attaching the cable.
You can see I've already gone off design with a corner brace and the cross brace because I'm not a fan of parallelograms. But the whole thing just seems iffy to me. I've looked at pictures from the kit company but they show a different design or two.
So here's what I'm pondering... I could weld up a set of pedals from 4130. Simplest would look like this:
Aircraft spruce sells 5.8oz polycarbonate rudder pedals I might adapt, but at nearly $70 I sure could build cheaper.
I could probably also build a toe brake mechanism if it came to it, but at some point you are just adding weight and wasting time.
So what should I be thinking about here? Am I wasting my time even considering doing anything but what I've already got? What would you do?
