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Category: Doors

Starting on the doors

January 16, 2014January 21, 2014 Ed 1 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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The doors on the RV10 have a reputation of being one of the more difficult, frustrating, and time consuming portions of the build process. Historically,

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Door trimming

January 18, 2014January 21, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build

I just had a little time to work on the plane today, so I decided to pull the pilots side door off the cabin top

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Another quick trim

January 19, 2014January 21, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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Just like yesterday, I just had a little time to put into the plane today. Also just like yesterday, I did some of the rough

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Half hinged?

January 20, 2014January 22, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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The goal for today was to get the hinges installed on the pilot door. To accomplish that, I first needed to make sure the upper

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Hinges in place

January 23, 2014February 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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Tonight was just like the other noght, except on the right door. I finished getting the upper portion of the door shaved down to fit

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Right door work

January 25, 2014February 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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Tonight, I continued to work down the door to get the fit to the cabin top closer. Having the door hinged in place made this

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More right door seal prep

January 26, 2014February 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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A continuation of last night. Slowly working my way around the door trying to get the consistent 1/4″ gap. One issue I ran into is

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Gapping the left door

January 30, 2014February 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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Tonight I started working on the pilots side door to get the consistent 1/4″ gap for the McMaster seals.       

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More tweaking, and starting the handles

February 1, 2014February 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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I started off tonight by going some more tweaking on the fit of the left door. Then I changed it up and started to work

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Handle work

February 4, 2014February 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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With the right sized drill bits in hand, I was able to continue on the door handle assemble. The instructions are fairly straight forward, but

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Pin blocks and pushrods

February 5, 2014February 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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The RV10 doors are secured in the closed position by two pins at the bottom front and bottom rear corners of the door. These pins

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More handle fun

February 6, 2014February 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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There is a safety feature built into the handle of the RV10. There is a button on the inner handle you need to push before

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More handles

February 8, 2014February 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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Tonight was spent figuring out how everything actually fit into the door. Again, there was a lot of tweaking, grinding, sanding, and cutting to make

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One door latched closed!

February 9, 2014February 11, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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More door latch work today. I finished up putting the pilots door handle parts together. The last step that I needed to do was to

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Door blocks

February 13, 2014February 13, 2014 Ed 0 Comment Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build
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Tonight, I started by fine tuning the PlaneAround angled door pins. Since the door pins have a slash cut angle at the end of them

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