For those who have not reached this point
What I have ended up doing which might be of use to others is filling
the rebate with flox covering with cling film and then putting the doors
on fitted correctly. this gives you a spacer of exactly the right size
with - added bonus- bumps where the screw holes should go. You then fit
the door with one of the hinge screws missing and using the hole in the
door tang and the hinge as a guide drill through the fuselage to get the
fuze hinge bolt connected. you have to use a countersunk csk screw
instead of the recommended item.
it seems a little easier than the rapid expoy procedure in the manual.
Oh and yes as Jim and everyone else says the gazillion times on and off
to ensure a decent fit before you drill anything
will
jimpuglise@comcast.net wrote:
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> Will-
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> I think most of us required shims under the hinges to set the door
> even with the fuselage top. I find it easiest to use BID in the hinge
> rebate to get the spacing right. By doing so, you get some additional
> "bang for your buck" in that the BID adds reinforcement to the hinge
> bed, as well as being able to closely control the thickness of the
> shim by the number of layers of BID applied. I followed the same
> practice with my rudder hinges. As far as the shot bolts, I found the
> procedure in the manual worked fine. I installed the hinges first,
> then the bolts in the doors, then put a little paint on the end of the
> shot bolt, held the door closed, closed the latch to mark the door
> rebates on the fuselage, then drilled and filed the fuselage until the
> bushings were slightly free floating in the hole when the door was
> closed with the bolt inserted. I then heavily greased the shot bolts,
> closed the door and REDUXed the bushings. It worked just fine.
> Getting the hinge rebates and the hinge tangs fit correctly was a real
> nuisance. I must have had the doors on and off 50 times.
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> Jim Puglise A-283
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Daniell" <wdaniell@etb.net.co>
> To: europa-list@matronics.com
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 9:00:31 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Europa-List: Door hinges to fuselage
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> Dear all
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> My door hinges require a spacer of 3mm - presumably - ply and -
> presumably - glassed in on the fuselage (bottom hinge) in order to fit
> properly...my question was is this normal and if so where in the
> manual was the instruction to do this?
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> Will
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