gear is installed with the small holes - one on each leg - located to
the rear of the fuselage. Use thread locking compound on each
8-32 bolt and tighten the four mounting bolts firmly.
Now that the main landing gear is installed with the slotted nylon
wire-mounting block in place, the fuselage landing gear hatch is
now reinstalled in place into the fuselage, over the landing gear
and nylon block. Center the hatch and use the two T2.6 x 12 mm
PWA screws to secure it in place.
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4) The two painted Rear Landing Strut Supports are now
installed into the fuselage and then to each landing gear leg.
These struts have been pre-drilled and pre-bent, creating a left and
a right strut. At the fuselage, the tapered and bent ends of these
struts fit into the slots just in front of the leading edge of the bottom
wing saddle.
They are each secured in the fuselage with a
4-40 x 9 mm round head Allen bolt and a 4-40 flat washer. Insert
the bolts through the outside holes on each side of the fuselage,
through the holes in the rear landing gear supports and into a
pre-installed 4-40 blind mounting nut inside the fuselage.
Use
thread-locking compound when installing these two bolts. Once
the bolts have engaged the blind nuts, thread them in place but do
not tighten them yet.
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1) Turn the fuselage over, upside down on your padded work
surface. The main landing gear hatch cover is located just behind
the recessed opening at the nose. This hatch is attached to the
fuselage with two T2.6 x 12 mm PWA screws that are accessible
through the two round holes on each side of the hatch. Use a small
Phillips screwdriver to remove these two screws, setting them
aside for now. The landing gear hatch is now removed from the
fuselage. From experience we can tell you that this hatch has tight
tolerances and is firmly in place. Use care when removing it. We
used a common flat butter knife, wedged under the side slots,
gently prying it up until it could be removed.
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2) Attach the nylon Center Landing Gear Wire Mounting
Block in place onto the bottom center of the main landing gear,
using two T2.6 x 10 mm PWA screws. This block is correctly in
place with its slotted end facing downward in relationship to the
landing gear. This slot accepts the main axle wire form when it's
mounted in place.
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3) The main landing gear - with the nylon mounting block now
firmly in place - can now installed to the fuselage using the four
provided 8-32 x 14 mm Allen head bolts, four 4 mm flat washers
and the four 4 mm split ring washers. NOTE: The main landing
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