July 8, 2022 - RV-10:  Cabin Doors

Rich retired last Friday so we really picked up the pace this week, putting in three six hour days.

Here Rich is trimming a Cabin Cover side window.  Again, it's trim and fit, trim and fit.  But the side window pexiglass is a lot thinner than the windshield was.
   
Then we started working on the door.  First step was to mark where the doors get the initial trim.
 
There are two pieces to each door:  inner side and outer side.  This is the outer side.
   
The door window also needed to be trimmed and fitted.
   
Rich trimming the outer side of one door.
   
We had never trimmed the cabin cover door area so Rich is doing that now.
   
The left inner and outer doors are clecoed together and trial-fitted to the cabin cover and fuselage.
   
The view from the inside.
   
More work on the left door.  Rich drills #40 holes all the way around the door window area.
   
The left door now secure clecoed to the fuselage.
   
And the right door.  It may not look like much but it took a lot of work to get to this point.  Plus all the pexiglass is trimmed and fitted.
   
I gave Rich and Nhu-An an epoxy 101 class, and now Nhu-An is going to epoxy the door hinge reinforcement piece to the inner doors.  Here Nhu-An is mixing the Marine West 105 System epoxy with "Cab-o-sil", a structural filler.
   
Applying the epoxy.
   

Rich and Nhu-An ordered a carbon fiber panel for their RV-10 from Aerosport Products.  It arrived yesterday.

Here is the front of the panel.
   
And the back.
   
Another look at the front with the bottom piece attached.
   
The aluminum panel supplied with the kit is still used but screws to the carbon fiber panel.
   
 
   
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