Hey,

I'm finishing up the install of an air glas fork on our 68 182 and I want to know how people are attaching their tugs to the plane.

How are you all attaching your tug? To the top of the fork like the original fork or at the wheel?

Thanks for letting me know.

Dale

The wheel (axle and nut). The lugs over the fork are too high for my tug. But I don’t like to use the tug because the fit over the axle bolt isn’t perfect and it can roach the paint on the fork. So I use the tow bar 90% of the time. I’m fortunate that there’s not much slope on my ramp and no ice.

Ok cool.

We are going to get the tug next to the fork setup next week and see what we can figure out

Lucky,

The usual setup is round bar or tube section that is hollow that will insert without friction inside the airglas axle tube cup.

You don’t want it hanging up on the through bolt or nut and buggering up the threads or your mechanic will fire you

Gonna try to get you a photo of the tow bar I use later today if I can get to the hangar I left it in, it’s 1f and a little breezy so I might not get out today but by Monday if I can remember ( insert old guy moji here)


Rocket

Thanks Rocket & Happy New Year!!

Didn’t make it out but asked my budy for a few good photos, only got one less than optimal but it will do.




So, number of years ago I stop by amother buddies hanger and he starts telling me about building this tow bar, him and his boy who had learned to oxy/acetylene weld recently in high school. He shows me this tow bar and it looks good enough, pretty simply made out of some old water pipe and a couple other pieces of metal scrap welded together.

Basically the long legs are spring loaded and there’s a slider in the middle that goes up and down and adjust the grip of the wheel end of tow bar, perfectly functional.



I look him in the eye and say something like this, dude I’ve been saving your ass for years, keeping your plane airborne, airworthy, and duct taping it back together when it wasn’t, shouldn’t you have made me one?

He reaches behind a post in the hanger and hands me a copy of the one he and his son had made…just for me.

Tows a Beaver, a 206, my little C-120, and everything in-between.

Had another buddy, Tower Matt I think, in for a supervised wing refinish and when he was ready to topcoat with Stewart’s system I handed him the tow bar and said, make it look pretty.


Rocket

Hey Rocket,

Thanks for the photos. We were checking my setup next to the plane earlier today and should have something ready to go next week.

Cheers