The main wheels for the Cloudster arrived in the mail today from Tower Hobbies. They are 2" diameter GWS Light Foam Wheels and cost $2.50 a pair. The wheel has a light foam tire around a spoked plastic hub and is advertised to weigh 3.2 grams. The pair of wheels I received today weigh 7 grams as shown below.

 

The holes in the plastic hubs are .082", which is too large for the cloudster's 1/16" piano wire landing gear (.063"). So the hubs were drilled for a .063" ID aluminum tube to serve as an axle bearing as shown below. The bearing tube length was 1/4".   

 

This picture shows a close up of the wheeels mounted on the landing gear.

 

This shows the wheels in the presents of the fuselage and  I think they look quite nice.

 

On the rubber powered J-3 Cub I made a tail wheel out of balsa with an aluminum tube axle bearing as shown below. I think that I will do the same thing for the Cloudster as I do not like the looks of the tail skid.................Tandy