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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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