Tail Wheel Steering Springs #16,20,30

Steering on the ground with the tail wheel has limits for this non fully castoring device, yet the Rans drawings I have from circa 1990 show solid links to the rudder arms. As mine was bought it had raqther strong springs instead as one often sees on heavier planes.
I tried out a pair of slightly softer rate springs, so when taxying the wheel can go to approx. right angles without heavily loading the rudder stops. It still retains adequate control when rudder steering. A little brake makes her turn neatly when I get to the end of the runway to line up, without seeming to put heavy loads onto the rudder or the tail wheel's leaf spring mounting as the wheel is now able to caster naturally to 90 degrees to the fuselage on full rudder.
Revised tail wheel springs links, I overstretched one of my  new light tail wheel springs, turning sharply the other week but decided to continue to use similar ones & make up strong wire loop connectors to reduce the preload. It still gives enough pedal steering when the aerodynamic forces vanish without straining the rudder mountings. When ground manoevering, the wheel can otherwise caster with quite a great force via the strong springs I had originally. But now, statically pushing the tail wheel to a little beyond right angles to the fuselage feels & looks O.K.
                                           As first seen, heavy duty springs.

                                          Lighter Springs (below two pix) permanently installed

It's worked permanently for over six years now, without showing either poor control or damage.