From: TByrnes133@aol.com
Message-ID: <0.1e11e029.25766315@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 06:40:05 EST
Subject: Door Hinge Drains
To: Lancair.List@olsusa.com
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Michael

I installed a 1/4 inch drain in each pocket.  I did not try to tie them 
together as I felt that, depending on the attitude of the airplane, only one 
of the drains would work.  I have two drains exiting the belly of the 
fuselage.  I also dammed up the outside edges of the depressions as high as 
possible without the hinges hitting and built a small ledge between the 
pockets to try and direct as much water as possible into the pockets.  I am 
not flying yet but I am quite confident that this approach will be better 
then doing nothing.  As I see it when you deflate the seal in the rain on the 
ramp, water will pour on your shoulder.

Tom Byrnes

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