REFLECTOR: Door hinges

[steve korney]

Andy...

Even my new Corvette leaks a little ....

Best... Steve



----Original Message Follows----
From: "Andrew Ellzey" <ajlz72756 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>
To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Door hinges
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 13:49:28 -0600

That's what I wanted to do with mine also, but wanted to make sure that the 
door would still open correctly before I spent all the time to make them 
flush. What about water intrusion through the hinges?

Andy
   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Hiroo Umeno
   To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
   Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:00 AM
   Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Door hinges


   On my aircraft, the top of the hinge is flush with the fuselage skin.  
Looking tangentially to the curvature of the fuselage, you will not see the 
hinge tops at all.



   Hiroo




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   From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On 
Behalf Of Andrew Ellzey
   Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 7:10 AM
   To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
   Subject: REFLECTOR: Door hinges



   Need some feed back on how flush your door hinges are to the top of the 
fuselage. The manual doesn't say how much or how little of the hinges should 
be sticking up in the slip stream. If I follow the manual and attach my 
hinges to the door first and don't add or remove any material to the 
thickness of the door structure at the hinge, I would have about 1/8 inch of 
the hinge above the door and top of the fuselage. Is this normal? The manual 
makes one statement like you should have from the center of the hinge pin 
above the door. Does everyone else have 1/2 of the hinge above the fuselage, 
or am I reading this wrong? I also would like to know how you are supposed 
to keep water from coming through the hinge when it rains. I intend to 
construct a pocket under my hinges to channel any water out to the door seal 
area to flow any water out around the door seal. Is this what anyone else 
has done.



   Andy Ellzey



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