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jesse(at)saintaviation.co
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 Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject: Door pins installation pictures needed |
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An overall suggestion:
When building the doors and installing the pins, if you put a shim under the
nylon block on the door, that will put the pin further in on the door frame,
making it less necessary to trim the nylon block on the door frame. Also, I
suggest putting the door seal on the door, even if temporarily, before doing
this. Many have seen how hard it is to close the doors with the seals on if
they were originally fit without the seals. If the seals hold the door out
a little, then that can be made to fit when doing the filling and prepping
for paint.
Do not archive
Jesse Saint
Saint Aviation, Inc.
jesse(at)saintaviation.com
www.saintaviation.com
Cell: 352-427-0285
Fax: 815-377-3694
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wayne.e(at)grandecom.net
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:18 am Post subject: Door pins installation pictures needed |
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Hi Michael,
I don't have any pictures of the door pin set but I have them installed. I had already installed the Van's supplied hardware and was using them until I received Riverhead's. The conversion was fairly easy. On the door jam guides I had to obviously remove the plastic ones and the elongate the holes I had made for the bolts so I could move the guides up and down for proper alignment. They were a little to thick for my set up so I had to take a little off of the back to get then to fit properly. Someone had said to mill it off but since I don't have that equipment I used the sander, which worked fine, but a little hot on the fingers :>}
On the door pins that go onto the tips of the door latch rods I had two problems. First I cut of the V shaped end of the tip of the rods. Then I ran into a little problem. When I had installed the Van's supplied guides I epoxied into the door rod the magnets used to determine if the door is closed. One, there was epoxy in the thread so I couldn't screw in the bullet type tip guides because of the epoxy. That's not a big problem that a tap couldn't solve but the actual magnets was a little problem. They weren't in deep enough so I couldn't screw the new tip in because they would bottom out on the magnet.
I had to remove the rods from the doors, which wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be at first, and got a long narrow steel rod and knocked out the old magnet and then tapped out the hole. After that it went together easily.
It was a little work but not to terribly bad. I really like this new setup. One it looks a lot more finished, at least for me, and two the door seems to latch much easier after I adjusted the openings. Before I had to kind of force the door shut, probably poor alignment by me initially, but now they close very smoothly, IMHO.
Hope this helps. If you want an actual picture I can take one for you.
Wayne Edgerton
N602WT flying
Hello,
since I didn't give up on the Rivethead door-pin set I want to proceed with my
door installation. could some one post pictures of the installed door pins and
what changes are required to the original setup.
I am currently installing Steve DiNieris door handles and want to make sure that
I don't do something irreversible for the Rivethead door-pin set up.
Best Regards
Michael
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Mike Whisky
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:00 am Post subject: Re: Door pins installation pictures needed |
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Hello Wayne,
a close up picture if the part which is on the door frame and the pin would be great. Thanks for your explanations that help already ahead.
Michael
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Deems Davis
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Mike Whisky
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:24 am Post subject: Re: Door pins installation pictures needed |
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Thanks Deems,
thats exactly what I needed!
Michael
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