Mike Muller wanted to know how I fasten my pants and axles on the landing gear so here's another short pic-tutorial. Maybe this one needs its own thread but.....

I make the pants and gear struts so customizing is no big deal. The aluminum threaded nut hard points are installed during pants lay-up on top of the carbon cloth reinforcement. Alignment is done in the mold. If anyone wants pants done this way it is straight forward to do on commercial pants too. If you want me to make them, they are not cheap!

I glue the pants onto the struts. Some noob was saying never to do that....well sorry to disappoint but this works better than anything else available and is super light. Been doing it for at least 10 years this way. Anyway, I'll let the pictures talk

EDIT*** note how the spinner is mated to the nose of the plane. I leave clearance here on purpose to allow some cooling ram air. My reasoning is simple: this air in the immediate vicinity of the spinner cone is some of the most disturbed, swirling air on the plane. I let it enter the engine compartment to help carry some of the heat of the crankcase eventho the crankcase is cooler than the cylinder. It helps