Supercub Bushcub wheel mod
Hey fellas I put bigger wheels on the Supercub. Haven't had a chance to fly with them yet. The original Supercub wheels work great on a hard runway but sucked in grass. I was able to ROG on VERY short grass and land w/o flipping over but not consistently with the stock wheels. I'll give the flight report and try to get some video of the new wheels in action this weekend.
Are they big? YES- Think Tundra tires that look big enough to look cartoony or like the big wheels on a FunCub. They are indeed much heavier that the stock wheels- not sure I would recommend this for a stock brushed motor setup. The Supercub of Love has a Hobbypartz Rocket Series 3010 1400 KV motor. It's not even going to know the new wheels are there
Got the wheels on HobbyPartz $3.00/pair (Hahahaha- funny story, I bought too many
) But here are some pics. Wifey has the "good" camera so you are gonna be stuck with cell phone pics.
Here's the link to the wheels I used
http://www.hobbypartz.com/79p-4011.html
Ok I'm lazy so I wanted to do as little work as possible. I retained the stock gear and used the stock nut to hold the gear on.
Here's the wheel as it came from HobbyPartz.
I made a rigged up depth gauge using some blue tape on a 1/2 inch drill, probably could have used a 3/8 or 7/16- didn't have those
Set the depth for around a half inch
Made a bushing out of the insulation from a piece of 12 gauge wire (an old battery lead). This shows the size of the new wheel compared to the old one. hahaha- The hub of the new wheel is the same size as the old wheel.
Here's the wheel after drilling, with the bushing (see the little red thing?) installed and placed onto the gear.
And a pic of the plane. Cartoonish enough for ya? I really thought Oh Crap these wheels are WAY too big until I got them onto the plane. Now I need to do some prop testing! If this motor will tolerate bigger than a 10x6 I certainly have the clearance for it?