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The tail leg is locked down and the retraction jack has been removed to replace the cup seals.

Pesky things – seems like a significant number of the surviving tail-wheel retracting Spitfires have had their tail-wheels locked down at some point. I have seen the semi-circular cut-outs in the doors on several.