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Old 10-25-2018, 05:25 AM
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Use enough cleco's and I doubt you'll need to break out the duct tape. Very happy with the fit of my doors to the frame.
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The fit looks really good.

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Old 10-25-2018, 06:21 AM
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Use enough cleco's and I doubt you'll need to break out the duct tape. Very happy with the fit of my doors to the frame.
As my finish kit arrives in a few weeks with the exciting anticipation of doing the doors. I like the idea and methodologies demonstrated in the apove photo. Where do the clecos along the sides go? Are the drilled into the side of the cabin top and the resultant holed filled?
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Old 10-25-2018, 07:48 AM
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Exactly, Mark. Use a hole finder to locate the ones in the fuselage sides.

This method helps match the cabin curvature exactly as the door halves cure up. Trimming later will let the door settle into the hole like a tapered cork, so remember that some possible shift can occur if all the subsequent iterative door trimming is done on the same 3 sides of the door vs all four. The tendency will be to allow the door to dangle in the doorway (on straps of aluminum held on with cleco's the way I did it) and trim ever more off the bottom and sides till drops into the doorway perfectly - except now it's lower in the doorway than you intended.

>> Trim the top edge, too, as you go - keep it centered! <<

Happily, I discovered this drift before it became too much and I lost too much of the bottom door lip. That would not have been good.
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Old 10-25-2018, 07:51 AM
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Mark, if you want to chat as you mentioned earlier on FB Messenger, say when. I didn't see your message for a good while. Happy to be of any assistance I can.
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Old 10-25-2018, 12:43 PM
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I used this method as well and liked it. I didn't use the hole finder to trace the edge of the door, though. I'm going to go back and do that as I created a bit of extra work on the cabin top sanding it down to fit the door on a 45. If using the McMaster Carr seal, there's no reason really to have the door edge on a 45 degree angle. Just get a good rounded edge and even gap allowing for paint.
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