Test fitting, modifying and installation of the landing gear cover skin.
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Author: pjlatten
Main gear mounting box shims
When installing the side skins and reinforcement ribs 5, I didn’t pay attention enough to the orientation of the flanges of rib 5 in relation with the flanges of the main gear mounting box. The result is a different orientation at the front and the rear. Furthermore a 4 mm hole is exactly under the head of the bolt and nut of the main landing gear, that made installing a 4 mm rivet impossible. 4 shims were designed to solve these issues.
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Landing gear inspection panel prototype
The landing gear cover skin has to be installed. According the plans this is done with rivets. However this removes the option to inspect the landing gear after a hard landing or during regular maintenance. There were incidents of cracks near the attachment bolts, those became visible after removing many rivets. Ideal would be a kind of inspection panel. However limited internal height limits the option of just installing rivnuts or nutplates. A smarter design was required and a prototype made.
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Wingtips fiberglass – 11
In 2020 and 2021 I did some work on the wing tips. Because it was super annoying, working so many hours on the wing tips I postponed the work. When I started working with resin and fiberglass on the landing gear spats I decided to finish the wing tips now as well. So this blog is about the remaining work in 2020, 2021 and recent weeks.
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Nav lights doublers
Improvement of the backing plates for the nav lights.
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Mounting the spats
After some more sanding, filling, sanding and painting the spats could finally be installed.
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Ingress handles
What should be a job of just installing the handles with 2 screws became a longer job.
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Valve covers
I don’t like the rubber grommet that covers the access hole to the valve. It’s annoying to install and has a black color which cannot be painted in a matching color. Custom made covers were designed and fabricated.
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Main wheel spats fixes
A lot of work was done in the recent days to make sure the spats for the main wheels have a nice fit.
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Test fit canopy frame
Unpacking and test fitting the canopy frame.
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