I needed a tiny bit of epoxy to glue in the striker plate that the latches engage with on this, so I sat it aside for a bit until I needed to mix up epoxy for smoothen else. last week I fiberglassed in the upper cowl cooling ramps. so I took care of teh striker plate as well. Today I finished riveting the hinge to the door and installed the hinge pin. It has a nice smooth latch operation and fits flush with the surrounding surface. The next time I'm in fiberglass mode I'll fill in the recess on the exterior cowl that surrounds the door for an overall flush fit. Should work out nicely. I wanted flush rivets in this, and while .032 is technically okay for countersinking a -3 rivet, it's just barely. I went with NAS oops rivets which just have a -2 head and require a much smaller countersink. Since they don't have as much strength under a tension load due to the small head I went overkill with 7 rivets on 1/2" spacing. Came out nice.