I'm building a PT40. It's my first go at this and I messed up my drill holes in the landing gear blocks. The drill guide was totally inaccurate (Thanks GP) I should have had a clearer understanding of how landing gear was installed and I would have caught it. Anyway, if I drill the holes in the proper spot, I'll obviously just end up with really messy holes that run into each other. I'm sure damaged landing gear anchor blocks are something that get damaged in crashes. Ideas on how to fix it?

Just fill the holes with epoxy and re-drill the new ones tomorrow.

drill it to suit a bit of standard size dowl 1/8, 3/16 etc glue the dowl in with PVA, wait to dry, Hey presto fixed

Fill holes with dowl thin CA re drill and go for it.

Thanks guys. This place is amazing.

I would fill with dowel, then complete the fill with wood patch (that putty like balsa stuff, works nice) then redrill. I have found, you can fix, patch, repair, rig up just about anything with a little ply, balsa, epoxy and some of that wood fill.

I had the same problem with my PT40. I found it before i drilled the holes and marked my own locations. Wouldn't you know, the second hole split the dang block. I just clamped it together with a vise grips and filled it with epoxy. it seems pretty solid now. That must be a problem with those planes.

Hmmm, funny you should mention that. I just now drilled the new holes (after filling the old ones with epoxy) and guess what - it split the bloody block. Only it didn't just split it, it peeled off the side, so I've got no way to clamp and glue it. I want to rip the whole landing gear assembly out and put in a new one, but I have no idea how to get those expoxied blocks out of there. I'm going to go bang my head against the wall for a while.

I think it was your post that we told you to use heat on it to remove them, but if not, heat the epoxy with your heat gun and it will soften the epoxy enough to get the blocks out.

Take your time and try not to burn the wood.

I just wanted to update all of you on the epoxy situation. I got a heat gun and softened up the epoxy. I also "cut" the landing gear rail in half by drilling holes all the way down it. Then, I just broke the rail in two and removed the rail when the epoxy was soft. It worked so well I not only got the blocks out, but the rail too. Thanks.

Cool, congrats. Knew it would work.