Gear

Steve Cole: Highly polished UC at Oshkosh

Good view of landing gear struts and support assembly.

Steve Cole: High polish and reflection of grass requires careful analysis ... there is no grass in the photo

Photo taken at Oshkosh looking up from the ground. Nose skin fits under the Strut Plate. Some builders are putting at least one rivet through the Strut Plate and the nose skin along the outer-middle edge of the Strut Plate.

Landing Gear Support Assemblies

Alan Z: the Strut Plate and gussets to reinforce the landing gear strut.

Landing gear strut and gussets ... Pitot Tube to the right

Dennis Brooks: Landing Gear and Pitot Tube

Landing Gear finished and mounted

Barely visible are the Factory provided axles.

Toe-in or Toe-out! ... neither I hope

Pipe used to align the gear ... which was already perfectly aligned! (Yes, I know there are arguments favoring both Toe-in and Toe-out.)

Landing Gear - trial assembly

Several key holes need to be drilled in support angles and Gear Strut while the assembly is attached with clamps.

Landing Gear - side view

Landing Gear - close side view

Landing Gear - top view from the rear

Landing Gear - top view

Finish drilling using drill press

Easier to drill thick tube with drill press ... also, it ensures a round holes square to the surface. NOTE: Key holes need to be drilled while the assembly is clamped to the spar.

Landing Gear Plate - Strut fits tightly into the upper rounded notch

Factory plate. Note: The hole pattern along the bottom edge must match the holes in the lower spar cap. This was not clear in my early set of plans. So I had a hole mismatch.

Landing Gear - Close view

Note: the "mismatch" of the 1/2 x 1/2-inch angle at the lower center-right. This is per plans.

Checking alignment

Note: the bolt at the top of the Strut Tube forces the tub to be perpendicular to the spar.

Checking for vertical alignment

I found the Strut Plate had to be very slight off perpendicular to allow the holes on the gussets to lay perfectly along the center -line of the Strut Tube.

Tight clearance for riveting on 1/2-inch angle.

I had previously ground down one side of the rivet set,

Landing Gear - Finished Assembly

Landing Gear - Finished Assembly ... close

Three different types of rivets were used. You can see the first solid rivet is slightly under size. I up'ed the rivets by a half-size (1/16th inch)

Finished Landing Gear Assembly

Finished Landing Gear Assembly

Dennis Brooks: view of landing gear

Enjoy!

Another view of landing gear

Nice!

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