Taking care of some miscellaneous items associated with the main landing gear. First things first, re-glue and clamp my favorite rocking chair using resorcinol-phenol glue – amazing stuff. Ripple the hangar cat approves. I plan to mount the MLG dump valve inside the keel, accessible by a fold-up door at the pilot’s right armrest, instead of in the inset cutout in the side of the keel. So I made some sheet metal bracketry to attach the dump valve to the inside of the keel wall. Also, the MLG retraction pulley mount was beefed up with a fillet of cabo+flox, followed by a layer of triax. I also ground off the shoulders of the MLG hydraulic cylinder mounting bracket because this was in the way of the hydraulic fittings. Now the hydraulic lines can be installed fore/aft without making sharp bends inside the keel.
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