That is a bummer man.. But otherwise congrats on the somewhat decient flight. The repairs dont look all that bad. While the bottom have is taken off why now and really reinforce the area.
For the nylon bolts (granted i haven't maidened my plane yet) i have two 1/4 x 20 bolts in the front 2 holes. I didn't use blind nuts on the bottom. Just went ahead and drilled and tapped new holes in the wood iteself. I did put a pretty big beefy basswood plate below the landing gear itself. Was going to do all 3 holes with the bolts but when i was tapping the rear hole for the LG my drill went all crazy and messed up the hole pretty good. So what i did is epoxy a dowl rod to fill in the extra hole. In the block and through the LG itself. Feels plenty strong. The dowl in the rear will help keep the twisting to a minimum on rough runways and landings gone wrong.
So for my information when you talked to VF, what did they say when the unforgiving deadstick arrives. Ive been having some issues with my saito 100 after breakin, so alittle hesitant on bringing it up. Anyway hopefully ill get it up this sunday.