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I built my gear door sliders and stuff with the fuselage right side up, without the top on and before the main gear cover was installed.  I put a piece of pipe across the fuselage with wood blocks as pivots.  The pipe was just galvanized pipe with the threaded ends.  On one end I made a crank handle with pieces of threaded pipe and elbows.  I used rope from the wheel to the pipe and wrapped the rope around the pipe several turns.  I made two stops for the crank handle so that I could hold the pipe in half turn increments.  With this mechanism, I was able to raise and lower the main gear 1 half of a turn at a time and hold it in any position that I wanted.  I was working alone and it worked very well for me.

Tom Byrnes (6 months to go)

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