REFLECTOR: Of door seals and two bars

[Terry Miles]

Thank Lar,

Mine is pouring right through, and coming out the inside face of the door
above the window.   I believe it is leaking over the top of the u-form seal,
and not underneath it.    A quick small bead line of silicon didn’t change
it any
the top edge of the door is the leak
my guess now is water is leaking
over the top surface of the seal and that there is a gap there between seal
and door.  

Terry

 

 

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Laurence Coen
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 1:58 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Of door seals and two bars

 

Terry,

 

My door seal is in good contact with the door around the entire perimeter
but still leaked at the top.  The water entered the "u-form" and traveled
all the way to the end at the rear bottom of the door where the two ends of
the seal meet.  Silicon seal between the u-form and the fuselage fixed it.

 

Larry Coen

N136LC

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From: Terry <mailto:terrence_miles at hotmail.com>  Miles 

To: 'Velocity Aircraft <mailto:reflector at tvbf.org>  Owners and Builders
list' 

Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 12:56 PM

Subject: REFLECTOR: Of door seals and two bars

 

Hi,

I know it must be somewhere in the archives.  I’m not good at that.  Dave
Scharenberg, hey, don’t you have pics of your solution for a tow bar?    
or
anybody else?

 

I can’t find what I saved the last time that topic came around.  

 

I have the XLRG, and I considering drilling ¼ holes in the fork, smack in
the middle fore/aft and up/down.  That would be my female aperture, and I
would then make the tow bar with ¼ steel rod and some kind of articulation
to go into the holes drilled in the side of the folks.  I fear with time
(push/pull/twist) that I would beat the crap out of my ¼ inch hole and maybe
elongate it or worse introduce stress cracks in the fork material..  

 

Could I please ask what others have done on this?

 

New topic:  Door seals, and sealing out the rain.  What’s the magic there?
I see that it is easy to have the u-form of the door seal spread open on
you.  Also it’s easy not to get a shoved all the way in the corner door
corners.  When I pour a glass of water along the top edge of the door,  I
now think the water is going up over the top of seal rather than leaking
thru it which was my first guess.  I think I have a gap between the top of
my door outboard of the dee-tube and the sealed fuselage flange where the
seal is.   

 

I am a willing listener!  

 

Thanks,

Terrys

 

 


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