After all of that work putting the fuselage together, it's finally time to take it apart again. I pulled the floor stiffeners and bottom skin off, but decided to test fit the gear leg attachments before I took everything else apart. The gear weldments fit against the wing spar bulkhead and stick through the bottom skin. The flange of the bulkhead has to be ground away to allow the tube to fit. It's a little nerve wracking cutting out a huge chunk of the flange, but apparently that's what you do! When I had the flange ground down enough, I took the gear weldments off and started dismantling the fuselage. For the foreseeable future I'll be deburring, countersinking, priming, and dimpling piles of parts to get ready to put it all together again.
