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Lightning
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Date: 2-5-2008
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Number of Hours: 1.00
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Brief Description: Check fit gear legs I
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I have not fitted my spar box, engine mount or gear legs, so I was able to try fitting the gear legs to the appropriate holes today, with no impact of them being attached to the fuselage.
First the bottom weldments: all three went on to within an inch of bottoming with little effort, so I am guessing that when I clean off the paint, they will go fully home.
The main gear legs go into the spar box about 2 inches with some effort . The outside diameter of the top of the main gear legs is 1 3/8". As the tubes are cut off at an angle, I need to get something deeper inside to measure the inside diameter and I don't have a good tool for that. I think something more than removing the paint will have to be done, but this is the next thing I will try.
The nose gear leg will not go into the engine mount at all. The outside diameter of the top of the nose gear leg is 1 3/8". The inside diameter of the tube measures at 1 3/8" too, so no clearance. I think something more than removing the paint will have to be done, but again, this is the next thing I will try.
Arion recognised a quality control problem with the manufacturing of the tubular items which they tell me has now been addressed.
I don't want to remove any material from the engine mount or spar box and leave the tube walls too thin, so if the above does not work, then I will be looking at sanding or turning the top of the gear legs.
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