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Rolled out on the grass. Notice the tail wheel is still there. I left it in due to not having the stacks of cash to hold the nose down.

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Stb side. Need to do some clean up...

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Port side LG socket hole.

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Port side. Same area as before just without the flash. Backlit from the inside to show areas with less material. This is before I did the belly layup per the manual.

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Starting to prep the bays for the tri-gear conversion.

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Wings on. Not really required at the stage. Just had to do it for motivation.

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Was going to use another plywood rib here but decided that the wide strap works fine. I later added some foam to the strap to give it some padding.

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Here you see I used bondo on the shims and screwed them down into the block. The shims made sure the guide was level. Also note the hole drilled in the Aluminum angle and the shim. This is where I fixed the guide for the curing stage to ensure nothing

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Started to make the axle jig. Used a simple setup of first taking large flat blocks of wood and caulking it to the floor somewhere over FS70. Then that allows me to fix the aluminum angle with a single screw once in its final position.

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I was really anal about keeping the socket holes tight. This proved to be more work than it was worth and was fighting the tight fit when it came to locating the axles. Do yourself a favor and just make them a little bigger, 1/8 or so. This gap will be

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Uncle Kim at work. We would tilt to starboard to work on the port side vice versa.

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Port side. Red highlighted area shows area with little reinforcement on inside. This is before I did the belly layup per the manual.

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Trash can is the best way to hold the landing gear legs.

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Though this was a neat pic of the mono wheel in the retracted position.

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Here the axles are getting the green goop. I used car carnauba wax as a release agent. Worked well jut get it on there thick. We also wrapped the top of the sockets with glad wrap to keep contaminates off of it while we moved it around.

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Starboard side of the air bubble fix on rib one. Used Flox with aeroboxy as a fillit.

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Port side. LG socket fitting.

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OK now that the plane is off the trailer and on its own wheel we were able to remove most of the trailer hardware and position the ribs. We also used the main bolts to hold the first rib in place. The other rib was left a little lower to be located once

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Bill helping hoist the aircraft up to remove the jig.

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Ensure you have a good key. I used the drill press to create the dimples. These will be filled with 420 and flox when doing the glass layups.