REFLECTOR: Door Seals

[Chuck Jensen]

Wow, Scott, you have some real screwed up priorities...good luck and we'll look forward what you discover.

Thanks,
Chuck Jensen
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-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]On
Behalf Of Scott Derrick
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 11:20 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Door Seals


Sorry Chuck,

I had to take almost the whole summer off working on the plane for that 
pesky thing called "a job".

I'm planning on installing it after I'm back in the air.

Scott

Chuck Jensen wrote:
> Hey, Scott,
> 
> Did you get around to the door seal test?  Any good?
> 
> Chuck Jensen
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]On
> Behalf Of Scott Derrick
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:07 AM
> To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Door Seals
> 
> 
> Joe,
> 
> I think I have 4 different thickness's of foam on my door. It closes 
> fine now but leaks like hell.
> 
> I'm going to try this product.
> 
> http://www.avtek2.com/Door%20Seal%20Info%20Page.htm#Why%20is%20the%20Seal%20so%20Big
> 
> Scott
> 
> jewen at comporium.net wrote:
>> I recently fitted the door seals.  Before installing the seals, the pin tubes in the doors lined up and worked pretty smoothly.  After installing the seals the doors are very difficult to latch and unlatch.  Upon opening the doors I noticed the seals were much more compressed at the top in the area near the hinges (true on both doors.)  Upon further examination, I noticed the premolded doors (circa 1995)are thicker in the area of the hinges.  This added thickness is pushing the door up when closed making the pins and tubes misaligned.  The rest of the sealing surface on the doors seems to fit very well (flight testing will of course confirm or reject the fit observation.
>>
>> Has anyone had this problem before and/or remedies?  The only fix I can think of is to reduce the thickness in the seal area to match the rest of the door; however, I assumed this area was thicker to provide additional strength.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joe
>>
>>
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