Fastbuild ES (same fuselage) at Lancair
build assist in fall 2005…
Door (frame & door) was bonded into
the top, with the top cleco’ed to the bottom.
Used small super-glued stacked tongue
depressors and small nuts/bolts in temporary holes to get/hold
spacing/alignment before bonding.
Door needs to open/close/latch easily without
any binding.
Then removed door, mixed/applied flox,
replaced door/frame to exact same position (spacers in place + bolts)
Worked fine (not perfect, but what is on these
pre-Evolution Lanciar kits – wink)
Tip if you can’t get the profile perfectly
aligned (you probably can’t), better to have the door protrude a small
amount at the top and/or bottom, where it is easiest to bodywork the rest of
the fuselage out to it, versus the other way around. Little area to body work
in the middle near the windows.
Rick
From: Lancair Mailing
List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf
Of Tom & Beth Sullivan
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011
10:38 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] IVP Door
Installation
After a shameful hiatus on my IVPT, I'm
finally back on it with some real passion. I bought the fast build door,
and seems like I remember many builders installing it while the fuselage top
was temporarily fastened (cleco'ed). I will be installing all my windows
in the next week, and would like to install the door after that, if it's efficient
to do before bonding the top on. I looked in the archives, but I
can't seem to find a search filter that doesn't give me 3,000 emails, or
narrows it down too far to about 10. If someone can give me direction
here, I would greatly appreciate it. If it's best to install the door
after bonding the top on, no problem. I'll leave that project until
later.
Fast build kit with slow
build builder