Going check my Sonex in an hour or two - From aged/poor memory; Should the wheel linkage be on the top of the rudder plate, so that when the tail wheel spring is deflated up (on landing) the linkage moves away from, (not into) the plate, as shown???
TW Steering rod on my Legacy, is above rudder plate. In the photo, from 4redwings, the steering rod is almost guaranteed to hit the bottom of the plate, in a hard landing. 
I was going to link to the web store, but they have closed it. The Sonex version has a straight tube, cut off at angles on the end, and plates welded with a bolt hole. No rod ends at all. I tried to make it work, I tried to copy the design and weld one up, then I bought the Peter Anson rod and it works great.
I cut a 1/4" rod to size and used a new thread cutting die on both ends for the control linkage rod. I used rod ends with studs (some suppliers call them linkage rod ends) in order to get the rod end to sit farther from the control horn to minimize the angle the rod ends have to handle.
I taxied it around the ramp without the wings on to test it and got lots of attention. The most frequently asked question was, Where is the fuel?
Now to get the wings on, which is my next topic…
John
Looks good John!
Very nice!
BTW, they do sell plans. They aren’t all that cheap, but if you’re going to own the plane you might as well get a set when they get back up to speed.
Rusty
