REFLECTOR: Door seals

[Laurence Coen]

Ron,

I also had trouble getting the doors closed after seal install.  What worked 
for me was to force the door against the seal till I got the pins engaged 
and latched the door. It took lots of horsepower to get it done but with the 
door latched and let sit for a week the seal takes a set and things start to 
work easier.  There is still lots of friction in the latching mechanism but 
this makes it almost impossible to accidently open the door in flight. 
That's a good thing.

Larry Coen
N136LC

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From: "Ron N VelocityXLFG" <velocityxl at fastmail.fm>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 8:52 AM
To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Subject: REFLECTOR: Door seals

> Does any one know of a trick to make the door seals softer?  My kit is 
> over 14 years old and I
> think the rubber door seals that came with my kit are to hard now. The 
> door closed fine
> before I installed the seals now I can not get the pins to insert into the 
> latch .
>
> Ron
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