By far the worst part of the build so far was the tail wheel. This part would have sucked even if the factory tail wheel hadn't broke.
I should've used a bracket that screws to the bottom of the fuselage instead of trying to make the factory method work. Like this one on my Tiger Moth:
This way seems like there's more slop in the tail wheel gear with the factory setup.
And because of this, I couldn't get the hinge line any closer together than this: