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How to repair gearmounts

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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; : transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">I am rebuilding a Skybolt and found some information regarding a weakness in the gear. Decided to inspect the gear mounts and did find four cracks.

This aircraft had probably some rough landings during it previous life.

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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; : transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Low quality picture, but the dark shadow below the mount is the crack<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; : transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; : transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Not sure about how to fix this. Have anybody repaired similar damages earlier - and how? Any references are appreciated.

Regards,
Thomas.
Edited by: Norbolt
 

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