Fitting Doors - Attaching the Canopy

Added 8/17/2005 - 772 approx. total hours

As I write this, these photos are kind of old, so I can't explain as good as I'd like to.  Anyway, I'm just fitting the doors after putting hinges in.  I did end up having to shim under the hinges of the left door, to raise the door a tad.  With enough filing and sanding, they fit OK.  I tried not to leave too much gap anywhere.  I have more than I wanted on the right side, but I think that during body sanding and filling, it'll all work out.

The 2 bright pictures that look meaningless are actually of the doors, from the side, showing that I had small voids where the cab-o-sil mix didn't fill all the way.  I used fresh expoxy and filler with a syringe to inject these few gaps so that I ended up with having them great.

Bolting on the canopy was staightforward.  I did one small change over the factory -10's.   On the screws around the outer door sil area, I countersunk them just a hair extra, and filled them over with filler and epoxy.  Unless you total your plane, you'll never need access to those srews, so I figured I'd fill them in nice and make it smooth.  It looks very nice today.

Then lower, you'll see the cab-o-sil filled epoxy around the inner door area.  That's the bead you're supposed to try to fillet.  I haven't seen another -10 yet that had a fantastic, smoothed area there....so I made it a mission to do mine nice.  In my next set of photos, you can see how it turned out after I filled and sanded a bunch.  The only real problem was it cause me to repaint more, but I would have had to paint this epoxy bead anyway.

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