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Landing Gear leg installation. Mr. Suzuki used some kind of a plate to sandwich the landing gear legs. I am going to use a 1/16" aircraft plywood plate covered with a heavey carbon fiber cloth using epoxy. The plate will be made, holes drilled and then cover the plate with the cloth. See first the first post of this build for the themes I am trying to execute.

You will notice a funky drill bit and some little plywood donuts, aluminum washers and some very heavy 6-32 socket screws. The aluminum washers are "extas" from the MK control horns used for the rudder and elevator horns which are drilled out with a #27 drill for the 6-32 socket screws. Micro fasteners no longer stocks the 6-32 x 1" aluminum...

The funky drill bit is a "plug" cutting drill bit. ($14.95 at any fully stocked hardware store, not Home Depot.) The donuts will hold the 6-32 blind nuts to provide additional support for the nuts.

The Zeque landing gear fit perfectly (actually one would expect nothing less) and I will put painters tape, measure, check, measure and fiddle before I drill anything. I WILL clamp the plywood plate and drill throught the plate and landing gear in one step.


Rusty Dose
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