Merry Christmas everyone. You dont hear much from me but I'm building and reading all your posts. All the best!

Very Impressive Jon, how did you get those close ups? Was someone filming you? Merry Christmas to all of you from the Snowy Sierra Nevada’s. We’re suppose to get a major dump. It’s cold and

Cool beans!

Merry Christmas to all. Jon, Can you tell me how you have the camera mounted from your wing tip, what type of boom and how far out? Terry N41521 KSCK

Merry Christmas from cold, rainy, icy, and foggy New Hampshire. Anthony -- Q2 N86KL

Merry Christmas Jon! Great Video. Not at home this week so no air planing for me, but I really enjoyed your video. No wonder Santa chooses to fly. Season’s greetings to everyone! Cheers, Jay

Merry Christmas everyone!! 🎄 If you are looking for something to do today 😉 - here's a short video of some fog over the high desert!! https://youtu.be/41OOB31kNRY Get those airplanes out and do

Definitely lubricate it as you get it going Hopefully the lubricant works it's way into the wheel You may have to tap it back and forth a lot.....a little at a time, like rocking a stuck car back and

Maybe get someone to tap once on the outside and then tap the inside to see if that will loosen it. You could use propane to super freeze the tube and see if it can make it shrink enough to move it.

Ahhh….now I follow you. Yep, that makes sense! Thanks for clarifying. -- Corbin N121CG

I'm simply not being clear. You correctly stated that it will/would be hard to keep the drift centered properly on the stuck pin when the end of the stuck pin is down inside the wheel. I was just

Anthony, I might not understand because wouldn't using the axle to try and tap the pusher rod back out do the same as you describe? -- Corbin N121CG

Thanks, Mike. I believe my pusher rod made it past the space and is about halfway through the wheel. But I follow what you are saying otherwise. -- Corbin N121CG

If the others' suggestions for gentle coaxing have not worked, try a short length (1") of hose or PVC with similar O.D. to your axle and place that over your smaller diameter drift. It will work as a

This is challenging to word properly. As the shorter steel tube is being pushed into place when it gets to a spacer, you have to hold upward pressure on the tire, otherwise as the steel shaft is

Thanks, Anthony, that's another good idea. I am worried I wouldn't be able to make certain I would be impacting in the dead center of the stuck rod since it is halfway through the wheel and hard to

I'm guessing the end of the steel pin has been slightly expanded/mushroomed. Very easy to do with what looks like hot rolled mild steel. If you can cut the stuck steel rod without creating heat, and

Thanks Jerry and Paul. I can get to a pipe wrench and vise grips faster than a can of air so I’ll give that a go. -- Corbin N121CG

Have you tried a pipe wrench to twist the rod?

I'm guessing something is not aligned anymore which is why you can't drive it one way or the other. I would use a pair of vicegrip pliers to PULL it back out. Paul