Door Frame Edges and Strut Bracket

A little more work on the doors and I'll be stopping for a while. I need to figure out some things on the exterior handles before I do all the finishing work.

I continued with what I could and that was thickening up the lip around the door frame edge. I used the Mcmaster Carr seal as a mold. I filled the seal up with epoxy/flox, tapped the seal into place with a rubber mallet, and then closed and latched the doors to let it dry. The next day things looked pretty good but the edges needed to be filled in a few areas and the entire process repeated in others where the epoxy door edge didn't make good contact. I also installed the planearound delrin pin guide blocks (sorry I don't have pics of that).

Here is detailed brake down of the tasks I completed
Sat 15th -4.5 hrs-

put seal back on RH Door frame

cleco RH door to fuselage

redrill holes for hinges as required

recountersink holes for hinges as required

screw door onto hinges

close door and test fit

work on gas strut bracket on both doors

install delrin guide blocks

find and mark thin areas of gutter for build up

mix epoxy and sqeeze into seal

close and latch doors while epoxy dries Sun 16th -2.0hrs- sand the door frame re-epoxy areas that didn't work first time later that day take the canopy off

Total Time on Doors

55.0

You can see the area where I had to build up the lip. The seal leave behind a nice ridged edge.

This is the wooden spacer I made to locate the door strut bracket.