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I worked on installing the main landing gear legs over the last week. This was one of those jobs that would have been done in an hour if everything went right, but it took me a week of spare time. I got bit by a "small" design change that I had made to the landing gear boxes to solve a "problem" earlier last year. The "improvement" I made then I swapped a rivet and screw location in the landing gear boxes created an interference problem between a screw and the big bolts that attach the outboard end of the landing gear legs. It took me a few days to figure out what combination of fastener types and orientation would work fit yet still give the same strength.

Today I turned the fuselage back upright and put it up on some stands so I could start fitting the axles, wheels, brakes and wheel pants.