The front gear leg strut cover needs a pad at each end to make it all fit flush. Now the easy way to have done this would have been to just bond the cover on. Of course I’m doing this fancy floating thing that gets secured at each end and sprung in the middle.

The trick is to make it all removable for maintenance. I just hate covering up screws and various bits that I have a feeling might need work in years to come.

So here’s what I did at the top end. A carefully shaped piece of foam, microed to the strut cover. The back side has one ply of BID on it and I just added micro to the thin sides. The third pic shows I’ve just added a bit of glass to seal the end of the strut pad. Will it never end?

Do you get the idea? The cover fits above the plate in pic 3 so the outside of the cover is flush. I added a couple of screws and I’ll do nut plates later when I remove the gear leg. Bit hard to get to right now.

Foam filler pad

Glued and glassed

End seal