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Category: Doors

Pin blocks and pushrods

February 5, 2014February 11, 2014 Ed Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build

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 Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build

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 Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build

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 Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build

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 Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build

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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Door strut brackets

February 16, 2014March 16, 2014 Ed Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build

Today, I started locating the door strut brackets on the cabin top and the door. I have the PlaneAround strut brackets, which are machined with

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Right door pins drilled

February 17, 2014March 16, 2014 Ed Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build

Just like the other day’s work on the left door, today I match drilled the right door pins, sized up the door blocks, got the

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Building up door opening edges

February 18, 2014March 16, 2014 Ed Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build

Using the McMaster door seals required me to sand back the edges of the door opening in the cabin top to an even 1/4″ from

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Back to the doors

June 30, 2014July 17, 2014 Ed Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build

With the cabin top on, I was able to continue fitting the doors. I wanted to leave myself a safe margin on trimming the edges

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Aaaaand I glued the door shut.

July 1, 2014July 17, 2014 Ed Doors, Finish Kit, RV10 Build

I actually scared myself a bit. As I was leaving for work, I figured I’d pop the door open to see how the epoxy I

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