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Builder:
  Andrew Duff
Location:
  Fort Worth, TX - USA
Aircraft:
  Nexus Mustang
Total Build Hours:
  2361
Web Site:
  http://www.mykitlog.com/duffak/

Date:  05-15-2023
Number of Hours:  8.00
Short Description:  Began work on landing gear mount

The mount for the landing gear consists of 3 tubes nested together and attached to the main and rear spars. The nesting requires that the tubes fit snuggly inside each other. I was not able to find an outer tube that had the correct inner and outer diameter off the shelf, so I had to have some machining work done to achieve this. There was a whole fiasco associated with this, and I have been working this on the side for the past few weeks. But in summary, we ended up having to bore inside the 8-inch-long end tube to get the correct diameter. You can only reach so far with a boring bar, so we had to hit the tube from both ends on the lathe, then smooth it a bit in the center. In the end, however, I have all the tubes needed to do the job, so work began. Image 1 shows the right wing after cutting a hole in the main spar web to allow insertion of the mounting tubes. Image 2 shows the end fitting that was fabricated to mounting on the rear spar. It’s a bit of a tricky bend since the rear spar has dihedral and the flanges need to accommodate this. Image 3 shows the same work for the left wing.




Initial nesting of the tubes on right wing





Right anchor fitting fabricated





Tubes and fittings on left wing

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