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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:15:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Jim Thomas <mypa12@yahoo.com>
Subject: Releasing Legacy Gear Doors
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Dana,

I have released my left inboard and outboard gear doors and provide the
following comments.

1.  The doors by themselves do not perfectly match the contour of the
wing.  All doors have a little twist to them which make them either stand
proud in one corner or sit low in another.  By releasing the doors this
difference can be split, thus reducing the body work required to fair in
the doors to the wing.

2.  When applying the electrical tape make sure you use a good quality
tape and make sure you clean the door edges with acetone to assure the
tape sticks well.  Don't stretch the tape too much.  It takes a lot of
tape (more than one roll).

3.  Mound up a lot of micro before you set the doors.  I smoothed it out
and there was not enough micro to completely fill the step.  Smooth the
micro and fill in the gap between the tape on the door and the wing to
provide complete filling of the gap.  Don't overfill this gap or the door
won't come out very easily.

4.  I used a rubber mallet to knock out my doors and it worked well but
the doors were in there pretty tight.  

Overall I am happy I released the doors which now have a nice even gap and
good fit. 

Jim Thomas
L2K#166 - Groveland, CA

[Just a suggestion... electrical tape (the black plastic kind) is notorious 
for sticking very well to itself but not so well to other objects.  You can
save yourself a lot of frustration by using either packaging tape or
duct tape for your releases.  Packaging tape is only a few mils thick, duct
tape lays up about .008 per layer, so you can customize the thickness of 
your releases.  Don't be too anal about the wrinkles, as they are a
breeze to fill after you pop the part loose.

  <Marv>      ]

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