Getting the gear legs attached to the engine mount turned out to be a pain in the posterior. For some of my friends, the legs went easily into the gear sockets but I wasn’t so lucky.

I wound up greasing the crap out of the gear legs to make them go in easier, but that only got them in part of the way. I had to get a little creative at that point – I grabbed my trusty heat gun and warmed up the gear sockets just a little to expand them.

I also put some bags of ice on the gear legs themselves to shrink the metal ever so slightly.

My very good friend Burt also came over to help.  He kept a firm hand on the fuselage to keep it from moving while I pushed, pulled and twisted on the gear. Thanks Burt!

In the end, we got the gear legs in…but it was a lot of work.