REFLECTOR: Door hinges

[Rene Dugas]

Remember that the nitrogen cylinder will likely push up anyway making
the door lift.  Very disappointing after days of sanding- but likely
outcome.  As the hinge wears the door lifts more.

Rene'

 

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Andrew Ellzey
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 1:49 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Door hinges

 

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 <mailto:humeno at microsoft.com>  

To: Velocity Aircraft <mailto:reflector at tvbf.org>  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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