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I made an exact copy of the gear door pattern on other paper and laid it
under the gear assembly in the wing.  Using the location recommended in the
instructions as a starting point I sighted down around the entire landing
gear to insure that there was adequate clearance.  I also found that I had
to fiddle with the location of the cutout pattern slightly in order to get
at least 1/4" of clearance around the entire gear assembly, and after all
of my careful alignment I still had to do some modifying to the opening for
the over-center links to correct for some clearance problems that emerged
once I could actually move the gear in and out of the well and dealing with
the wheel alignment.  Just do your best to insure that there are no obvious
interferences while staying as close as possible to the recommended
location and go for it.

A little trick to make moving the pattern from inside the wing to outside
the wing a lot easier was to drill 3 small holes (1/16" or less) through
the pattern and the wing skin and mark those holes on the pattern with
"X"es.  Then when you turn the fuselage back to the inverted position you
can put small nails or pins into the locator holes in the wing and drop the
pattern right over them.

   <Marv>