I just got this from Jim Faughn, who apparently is in port today. I copied him on the original email, and this is his feedback.
> The tail wheel spring I had was actually one made from a mold that was Dan > Diehl's idea for something else to sell. However, it was so labor > intensive > and obviously had possible errors, that he elected to not go forward with > it. He did loan it to a couple of us and we made a tail wheel spring. It > is > much quieter than the original but it had it's obvious problems. I never > fixed it more than we did on the ramp because I saw it as a "merit badge" > of > learning. Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net