This step is just making two 2024-T3 metal plates that bolt onto NG30 and have the nose gear pivot assembly NG6A between them. For some reason this took quite a long time…nearly a week of fiddling.

I marked out the disks, then drilled the holes and countersunk for the screws with my very expensive 100 degree countersink tool. Easy.

Then I cut the disks out on the bandsaw and shaped them on the linisher. The hard part was getting Alodine and prep solutions. I also had the wrong nuts from Spruce but sourced some locally. My first go at it had them too long in the alodine bath so I removed the coating and had another go a few days later. Its not quite as yellow as the pics now.

Then I had trouble getting the right screw length so cut some down which took a while. After installing the assembly as in pic three …all nicely floxed in, I later just had a suspicion that they might just be shanked. It was very close. That was enough to go and buy some better screws. Meanwhile I had to heat each screw up to remove them carefully ( remember the flox…) using a large soldering iron.

I now have structural machine screws in place at the correct length with fresh nuts and I’m 100% happy. The final ones are not pictured. You’ll just have to take my word for it that they are very pretty.

Bore and countersink

After Alodine

Bolted in place