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11-24-2004

5.0

 

Smoothed all edges on the nose wheel fork and wheel fork doubler

 

Laid out the side bolt pattern and the axle hole in the nose wheel fork and wheel fork doubler

 

Drilled and clecoed the wheel fork doubler to the nose wheel fork

 

Laid out the hole pattern on the nose gear strut assembly and drilled

 

Clamped the nose gear strut assembly to the wheel fork doubler and nose wheel for and back drilled the holes for mounting

 

Fabricated a plate for attachment of a towbar and match drilled it to the nose wheel fork

 

Drilled all holes up to size

 

 

 

11-25-2004

6.0

 

 

Filed the four grooves for the gear strut fitting bolts

 

Smoothed all the machining marks from the gear

 

Marked the centerline ob both ends of the gear and on both axel mounts

 

Clamped the main axle to the gear, transfer punched and drilled the four mounting holes

 

Bolted the main axel to the gear

 

Marked, drilled and cut the gear plates to size

 

Smoothed all edges on the gear plate

 

11-26-2004

2.0

 

Assembled the tires and tubes on the three Matco wheels

11-30-2004

2.0

 

Disassembled the nose wheel fork and wheel fork doubler, deburred all holes and smoothed the remaining machine marks on the wheel fork

 

Removed the axels from the main gear spring and deburred all holes in the spring

 

Used Poly Fiber  E-2310 Aluma-Dyne Phosphoric Acid Etch to clean the main gear spring, the gear plates, the nose wheel fork, the wheel fork doubler and the axle spacers then treated them with E-2300 Aluma-Dyne Conversion Coating

 

12-2-2004

2.0

 

Assembled axels to main gear spring

 

Assembled brakes to the axels

 

Fit wheels on axels

 

12-3-2004

2.0

Assembled the nose gear strut assembly

 

Attached nose gear strut assembly to firewall

 

Fit nose wheel to nose gear strut

 

12-4-2004

2.0

 

Fit and attached main gear to bottom of fuselage

 

 

 

 

 

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