Assemble & Install The Landing Gear; Install The Wing Fairings, Belly Pan & Cockpit Floor - GREAT PLANES Proud Bird Instruction Manual

Assemble & Install the Landing Gear
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1. Apply a drop or two of household oil to the main wheel
axles and thread locking compound to each axle nut. Fit an
axle through a landing gear leg and partially into the wheel
pant that fi ts onto that gear leg. Use a slender pair of needle-
nose pliers to hold the axle nut. Put a main wheel into the
wheel pant, fi t the axle nut between the wheel and the pant
aligned with the axle hole and slide the axle through the nut
and through the wheel hub into the plywood disk glued to
the other side of the pant. Holding the axle nut with pliers,
tighten the axle. Repeat this step for the other landing gear
leg. Use threadlocker.
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2. Mount the landing gear onto the wings using four 4x12mm
fl at head machine screws and thread locking compound.
Install the Wing Fairings,
Belly Pan & Cockpit Floor
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2. The fairings are molded to fi t on the sides of the wing
saddle and on the formers at the fore and aft ends of the
saddle. Attach the wing. Test fi t the fairings in place and make
any adjustments necessary until you are satisfi ed with the fi t.
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1. Cut out the wing
fairings along the cut
lines. Curved canopy
scissors work well for
this task (HCAR0667).