Mar 27, 2024     45-7 Cabin Doors and Transparency Hinge Covers - (2 hours) Category: Doors

Removed right door. Used flox and silica to smooth out the hinge covers and the door strut bracket.

  Mar 25, 2024     45-7 Cabin Doors and Transparency Step Build Up Flanges - (3 hours)       Category: Doors

some more work on the door opening. Epoxy and flox to smooth out transition between fuselage and door (right proud).
Used some flox to fix one of the two forward interior panel

  Mar 20, 2024     45-7 Cabin Doors and Transparency Step Build Up Flanges - (2 hours) Category: Doors

sanded left door opening flange. Used again epoxy and flox to smooth out transition and straighten the door opening.

Painted with matt transparent the right carbon fiber on the door opening.

  Mar 19, 2024     45-7 Cabin Doors and Transparency Step Build Up Flanges - (2 hours) Category: Doors

sanded left door bottom side. Used epoxy and flox to have a better transition between fuselage and door (bottom was sitting proud 2 mm).

  Mar 17, 2024     45-7 Cabin Doors and Transparency Hinge Covers - (1 hour) Category: Doors

Temporarily reinstalled left door to check for gap and necessary adjustments

  Mar 13, 2024     45-7 Cabin Doors and Transparency Step Build Up Flanges - (2 hours) Category: Doors

Sanded right door bottom opening in order to have a 2mm gap and a smooth transition fuselage-door

  Mar 12, 2024     45-7 Cabin Doors and Transparency Step Build Up Flanges - (2 hours) Category: Doors

Sanded right door opening. Sanded right door bringing on the same plane with the fuselage. Added more epoxy with Cabosil on the bottom side of the door opening in order to have a better finish. Sanding tomorrow.

  Mar 11, 2024     45-7 Cabin Doors and Transparency Hinge Covers - (2 hours)       Category: Doors

Used Bondo to smooth out irregularities. Used rubber seal (2 mm thick) to have a consistent gap for the door. I used epoxy and flox to improve the door opening flanges. Now curing and then sanding.

  Mar 11, 2024     45-7 Cabin Doors and Transparency Hinge Covers - (1 hour) Category: Doors

sanded the hinge covers left door and the gas strut brackets

  Mar 10, 2024     45-7 Cabin Doors and Transparency Hinge Covers - (1 hour)       Category: Doors

Mixed epoxy flox and silica to cover the wooden hinge covers for the left door. I also used the epoxy mix to support better the door strut bracket.

  Mar 09, 2024     45-7 Cabin Doors and Transparency Hinge Covers - (2 hours) Category: Doors

Modified and sanded the left door hinge cover.
sanded right door to get a 2.5mm gap on the bottom of the door
Countersunk the open holes on the side skins around the door opening. They have been used to form the doors, but there is no indication in the kit instruction on how to deal with these holes. This step has not been done in the Quickbuild phase and i didn't realize that Section 29-14 step 9

  Mar 08, 2024     45-7 Cabin Doors and Transparency Hinge Covers - (1 hour)       Category: Doors

Left door wooden cover installed with rapid epoxy

  Mar 06, 2024     45-13 Cabin doors and transparencies Planearound Door Latch - (2 hours) Category: Doors

temporary install of right side door. Movement is not smooth. I will probably need to check the delrin blocks on the fuselage and check if they can be moved slightly outboard.
Trimmed right door front to have 3 mm gap.

  Mar 05, 2024     45-7 Cabin Doors and Transparency Hinge Covers - (1 hour)       Category: Doors

prepared door hinge cover with plywood for the right door. glued to the door with rapid epoxy

  Mar 04, 2024     45-13 Cabin door and transparencies Step Planearound - (1 hour) Category: Doors

started to cut the door latch covers using 5mm plywood.

  Mar 03, 2024     45-14 Cabin doors and transparencies Step 1-4 Planearound Door Latch Step 1-4 - (1 hour) Category: Doors

repositioned slightly the left forward delrin door pin guide and sanded a bit to have less interference with the radius on the door flange. Result is that the door is only 2,5 mm proud forward and 1,9 backward. Registered the middle door latch, now less then 1 mm proud of fuselage.
Pretty happy with the result. I will try to sand the pin guide a little bit more...if that is not enough i believe that 2mm can be adjusted with some epoxy and flox on the fuselage to smooth out everything

  Feb 28, 2024     45-14 Cabin doors and transparencies Planearound Door Latch - (1.5 hours) Category: Doors

Removed the planeraound door latch blocks. Sanded the epoxy excess and tested the fitting. Installed the cam on the left door and tested operation.
For the right door i need to reinstall the door first.

  Feb 27, 2024     45-13 Cabin doors and transparencies Planearound Door Latch - (2 hours)       Category: Doors

I needed to remove part of the carbon fiber and epoxy using the dremel to allow a better sitting of the plane around cabin block. After that i used some epoxy and flox under the cabin block to create a better sitting surface. My concern is that with the cam pulling strongly the delrin block could move too much.

  Nov 27, 2023     43-12 Cabin Cover step 1-3 - (3 hours) Category: Doors

More sanding and glassing on carbon fiber door opening flanges

  Nov 25, 2023     43-12 Cabin Cover step 1-3 - (4 hours) Category: Doors

new carbon fiber layers on door opening flanges (both sides), more epoxy and a lot of sanding

  Nov 21, 2023     43-12 Cabin Cover step 1-3 - (2 hours) Category: Doors

more sanding and more epoxy to fill gaps on the cabin door flanges