Hooray!  I finally got the landing gear of the shelf and under the airplane!  Whoohoo!  Sorry, getting ahead of myself here...  first things first.  we need to jack up the plane.  I looked online at Harbor Freight Tools and saw that they had a 1000lb lift table that might be just the ticket.  So we went down there to Lomita, and they had the lift there on sale for $199.  Sweet.  So we bought it (that’s the first picture) and brought it home.  The push handle was going to be problematic - sort of in the way, so I unbolted it, busted out the chop saw, and cut the thing down to a manageable size.  It’s got the release lever to lower the table built onto the handle, and I didn’t really want to re-engineer that, so i just drilled a hole so the handle could stick off the thing at a flat angle.  Out of the way.  So the table is cool, and it works great.  I just padded it up, and stuck it underneath the main spar carrythrough.  It’s pretty sweet, and very stable.  I was pretty worried about somehow lifing up the airplane, and propping it up on something.  This way, we can lift it up and down with no problems, and it’ll come in handy later.   So up in the air with the airplane, and on goes the gear!    Installing the gear is actually a very mild deal.  drill a couple holes, snug up a couple bolts, and the main gear is on.  The nose gear, on the other hand, was a big pain in the ass.  Harrumph.  So there’s these big rubber washers that you have to compress somehow and slip a bolt through some other thingy.  I got a ratcheting tie-down, and tried to get the thing squeezed enough.  no go.  The tie-down I got was super weak-sauce.  I got the thing snugged up as tight as I could, but it wasn’t enough.  I got scared when I got close, that thing was so tight, I thought it’d snap.  So I left it in that state til I could get another super beefy tiedown ratchet thingy, like with a 1000 pound rating, and that did it.  Got the bolt through the thing, and that was that.  I bolted up the front wheel per the plans for the time being, but I guess there’s a but of business about getting spacers to not gall the nose gear fork.  I wanted to see how it goes together before I think about changing it.  I’ve seen a couple of approaches that I’d consider....  I’ll sleep on it. I considered not priming the brake bracket and the nose fork, but of all the stuff on the airplane, that’s the stuff that’ll see the most abuse from water, weather, and general shennannegins.  So I took the time to squirt them down with some epoxy primer.