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jeynon2

Joined: 25 Oct 2007
Posts: 24
Location: Southern Illinois

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:17 am Post subject: Gear legs - flipside

First off, I would like to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone participating on this forum.  You are an invaluable resource to the lone builder (cue: coyote howling in distance).



With a satisfied sigh of relief, my gear legs have slipped into their respective tubes. I'm now at the - fit gear legs into axle weldments until they bottom out - step.  Here the difficulty seems to be that the taper on the gear leg begins about 1/2" before the leg bottoms.  I don't think sanding is going to fix this one.



So now my question is:  Machine shop?,  Don't worry about bottoming?, Some other insightful solution I haven't thought of?



Thanks again.



John Eynon

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reames(at)frontiernet.net
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:47 am Post subject: Gear legs - flipside

This is from experience, first step, make sure that there is no ring of 

paint around the inside start of the taper socket of the axel weldment.

BA

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sttwig(at)wabroadband.com
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:49 am Post subject: Gear legs - flipside

John,



I have the same observation with the bottom of the gear legs. I thought

there was two ways to interpret the "bottom out" statement.  One is to

make sure they actually hit the bottom of the weldment socket and the

other is to just make sure they were in as far as they would go.  Right or

wrong I chose to go the latter after spending considerable time sanding

and not making any head way.  The same was true for the bottom end of the

nose gear.



Steve

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 First off, I would like to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone

 participating on this forum.  You are an invaluable resource to the lone

 builder (cue: coyote howling in distance).



 With a satisfied sigh of relief, my gear legs have slipped into their

 respective tubes. I'm now at the - fit gear legs into axle weldments until

 they bottom out - step.  Here the difficulty seems to be that the taper on

 the gear leg begins about 1/2" before the leg bottoms.  I don't think

 sanding is going to fix this one.



 So now my question is:  Machine shop?,  Don't worry about bottoming?, Some

 other insightful solution I haven't thought of?



 Thanks again.



 John Eynon

 Lightning #53





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jeynon2

Joined: 25 Oct 2007
Posts: 24
Location: Southern Illinois

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:53 am Post subject: Re: Gear legs - flipside

Just wanted to correct my last post.  The bottom of the gear legs are not as far off as I thought.  With a good night's sleep and fresh sanding muscles, the  wheel side of the gear legs are sand-able.  I've sanded.  They're sanded.  They've bottomed.  I'm good.  My baby's going to walk.



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