Need Yokes

[Mark Julicher]

Does anyone have a couple of post war yokes for sale? With or without the control shaft is OK. I'm trying to help out a T-craft owner with a broken yoke.

Egg jokes are fine too.

[Buell Powell]

Re: Need Yokes

Mark,
There was a box with several yokes at the Taylorcraft factory in La-Grange when the factory was there --if someone knows how to contact the current factory inventory owner may be they could sell a pair of them?

[crispy critter]

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I think I still have a couple of the magnisium but they will need to be compeletly stripped and refinished.

[M Towsley]

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Mark,

I have two from my '46, as I replaced them with pretzels. They are later model with the plastic 'Taylorcraft' center emblem. I believe they are no different from post war, he would have to remove the Taylorcraft emblems. I can post pictures if needed.

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Need Yokes

Do you have a picture of which type yoke he needs? I can have some yoke parts I can give him if they are the right ones and the pretzels clean up REALLY nice. You can put heat shrink on the tube then add the new pretzel balls and they look like brand new.
I also loaned out the center cover for my Banjo wheel to someone who thought they might have someone who can make new ones. I can't remember who I loaned it to! Could you let me know and if anyone has another Banjo wheel I would be interested in having a set for my 41.
Hank

[Hank Jarrett]

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OK, it only posted the first three photos. That is my pretzel before and after I rebuilt it in the first two photos. The third photo is of the center piece I loaned out (I don't need it back yet, I just can't remember who I loaned it to).
The two photos in this post are of what the Banjo wheel looks like and a set of wheels. The one on the left is a cast Magnesium wheel, whit a pretzel and a 39 or 40 round wheel.
Hank

[Hank Jarrett]

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I am really starting to hate the new versions of MS Software. For some reason our site can't accept bmp files any more and my system won't convert them into jpgs. I will mess with them for a while and try and get them into a format that will post.
@)(#$$%&(#@! MICROSOFT!
Hank

[Larry Lyons]

Re: Need Yokes

sorry, don't want to hijack the thread but I too have had the same problem with MS and their wanting full control of all things computor, including the same pic problems you are have Hank. L

I am really starting to hate the new versions of MS Software. For some reason our site can't accept bmp files any more and my system won't convert them into jpgs. I will mess with them for a while and try and get them into a format that will post.
@)(#$$%&(#@! MICROSOFT!
Hank

[Hank Jarrett]

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PITA Computer! No wonder I carry around a pencil and pad.
Hank

[M Towsley]

Re: Need Yokes

Mark,

I have the top left one in Hank's photo that he was finally able to post, (haha Hank), with the plastic Taylorcraft centerpiece on it.

[Hank Jarrett]

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I think it is John Cooper (NY86) who was making the new hubs for the pretzel wheels. Pure works of art that will make your wheels look like new.
If you need the cast Magnesium wheels it is one of the few parts I would want Powder coated. as a rule I really don't like Powder coating since it covers flaws until they actually fail, but on the wheels it works great and also looks like new again.
The banjo wheels are made up of a whole BOX of small parts and each one has to be redone to make them look right. If you have one, DON'T take it apart unless you have another one to use as a guide to get it back together! I took the parts box for the one I have down and it will cost me a fortune to get the parts plated and hours each to fix up, which is why I am waiting until I get a second one to do it. Doing two is a LOT less than twice the cost of doing one. I can see why Taylorcraft stopped using them.
Hank

By the way, Taylorcraft didn't make the Banjo wheels, they bought them from Aeronca. They were used on the Chief. The Pretzel wheels were also used on Erocoups and a couple of other planes. Around the time of the war, everybody was looking to cut costs. The pre-war Taylorcrafts are FULL of car parts!

[M Towsley]

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Hank,

It is John who is doing the absolutely wonderful pretzel yoke center piece and upper piece reproductions. I redid mine earlier this year and posted pictures.

The pretzel was also used on Cessnas, but upside down as opposed to Taylorcrafts'.

[Mark Julicher]

Re: Need Yokes

Marty and/or Kevin
The top left one in Hank's picture is what I was interested in. Perhaps you could PM me a price and a phone number and I will have the party that needs them call you.

Apparently, this fellow and an instructor who owns the T-craft were working on crosswind landings and one yoke broke! I was not an original T-craft yoke, but some sort of ram's horn type (Cessna?) anyway, he needs to replace them.
Thanks for the help.

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Need Yokes

That is the post war cast magnesium one. I am pretty sure there was one on eBay over the weekend.
Hank

[M Towsley]

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I would assume if one broke he might want the pair? Let me dig out the yokes and I will get back with you.