I haven't worked on the project for the past month or so as I've had some other projects to attend to. However, I have had the gear legs and forks at my favourite welder. Dennis Brown of Dennis Brown welding has accepted the challenge of welding up the new forks and repairing the damaged gear. As a reminder, the fork on each leg was damaged beyond repair in the accident 40 years ago. I cut them off and re-engineered some new forks that would work with the new wheel assemblies. The original wheels were a one-off design that fit an obscure tire size that's no longer available. Only one of the original wheels survived the accident and the subsequent 40 years of storage and movement. It was a custom machined magnesium wheel to fit the oddball tire size. Not only that, but the original plane had drum brakes from a Citroen. This is understandable since the plane was designed and built in France over 50 years ago... So, the new forks were designed to fit a Matco axle, wheel and brake assembly with a fairly conventional tire size. The new tire is almost the same outer diameter as the original and it still fits into the wheel bay when retracted.
Dennis has done some preliminary welding, tacking the pieces we'd cut out on the waterjet table a few months ago.