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Date:  3-16-2018
Number of Hours:  2.40
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Brief Description:  Landing Gear install

Basically a lot of the work for this session was going out to the shop and setting up and drilling the gear legs. I am blessed with owning a milling machine. So I took the parts and went out to the shop.

The setup of such a heavy, bulky, and odd shaped part has it's challenges. I got the drilling of the gear leg complete. I went to locate the proper hardware and thought I found them. I later determined after looking through the hardware containers, that there were no 5/16 bolts included in the hardware. There were the exact amount of 3/8 bolts and hardware that does not go to anything else. I deduced that the right length but the wrong diameter bolt was put into the kit.

In step my friend Jim. I knew he put the one-piece Grove gear in his build. I called him and found that he used different bolts for his Grove.....he immediately shipped me the 4 bolts I needed. Oh yeah....all the rest of the 5/16 hardware came in my kit.....just the wrong size bolts....thanks AGAIN Jimbo!
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Set up on mill machine

Set up on mill machine

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Made drilling the hole easier

Made drilling the hole easier

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Right amount of the wrong bolts

Right amount of the wrong bolts

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